expansion term
1Expansion plans for Milton Keynes — In January 2004, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott announced[1] the United Kingdom government s Expansion plans for Milton Keynes He proposed that the population of Milton Keynes (ceremonially Buckinghamshire) should double in the subsequent 20 …
2Expansion team — An expansion team is a term used for a brand new team in a sports league. The term is most commonly used in reference to the North American major professional sports leagues, but is applied to sports leagues worldwide that use a closed franchise… …
3Expansion joint — For the railway specific expansion joints, see Breather switch. Expansion joint on a bridge An expansion joint or movement joint is an assembly designed to safely absorb the heat induced expansion and contraction of various construction materials …
4Expansion bus — An expansion bus is made up of electronic pathways which move information between the code of a computer system, including the CPU and RAM, and peripheral devices. It is a collection of wires and protocols that allows for the expansion of a… …
5Expansion (geometry) — [ dodecahedron creates a rhombicosidodecahedron and a reverse expansion creates an icosahedron.] In geometry, expansion is a polytope operation where facets are separated and moved radially apart, and new facets are formed at separated elements… …
6Copyright term — Expansion of U.S. copyright term (Assuming authors create their works at age 35 and live for seventy years) Copyright term is the length of time copyright subsists in a work before it passes into the public domain. Length of copyright Copyright… …
7Multipole expansion — A multipole expansion is a mathematical series representing a function that depends on angles usually the two angles on a sphere. These series are useful because they can often be truncated, meaning that only the first few terms need to be… …
8Cluster expansion — In statistical mechanics, the cluster expansion (also called the high temperature expansion or hopping expansion) is a power series expansion of the partition function of a statistical field theory around a model that is a union of non… …
9Thermal expansion — Thermodynamics …
10Coefficient of thermal expansion — When the temperature of a substance changes, the energy that is stored in the intermolecular bonds between atoms changes. When the stored energy increases, so does the length of the molecular bonds. As a result, solids typically expand in… …
