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What is "expandable"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
expandable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Apparently the amount of space dedicated to it is expandable according to interest.
▪ But it was not expandable and as the creature grew, it had to shed its shell regularly.
▪ Self expandable biliary stents have been used for palliative treatment of malignant biliary strictures.
▪ Self expandable steel braided endoprostheses were first used for the treatment of vascular and urological benign strictures, with good clinical results.
▪ The system uses up to four processors per card, and is expandable to 40 processors.
▪ This box may draw from some central archive or contain its own expandable universe of data.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
expandable

expandable \expandable\ adj. able to expand or to be expanded.

Syn: expandible, expansible, expansile.

Wiktionary
expandable

a. Having the capacity to be expanded. n. Anything that can be expanded.

WordNet
expandable

  1. adj. able to expand or be expanded [syn: expandible, expansible]

  2. (of gases) capable of expansion [syn: expandible, expansible, expansile]

Usage examples of "expandable".

Army for the D-Day invasion in World War II, was essentially an explosive at the end of a long, expandable tube.

Several segments of an expandable metal watchband were scattered on the pavement.

Like the other briefers, he referred to a large map covered with clear plastic sheets that took up the entire wall of the expandable tractor-trailer van which served as the corps briefing area.

Laurie Hatch and I were borne along on a tide of conversation that seemed infinitely expandable into realms more and more intimate by grace of a shared understanding.

The Volvo has an expandable compartment in back, custom-designed to haul up to three imprinted golem blanks in a vac-pac, or just one with a ready-bake kilnette.