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Expansile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of, relating to, or capable of expansion.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. expansionary, relating to expansion

adj. expandable, which can be expanded

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Expansible.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Capable of expanding or of expansion; of a nature to expand: as, expansile action.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. (of gases) capable of expansion

Word Usage

"Upon this fact the mechanism of respiration mainly depends; and we may see a still further proof of this in the circumstance that, when the thoracic parietes are pierced, so as to let the external air into the cavity of the pleura, the lung collapses and the thoracic side ceases to exert an expansile influence over the lung."

Equivalent

elastic

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

expansible