Expansion may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

  • L'Expansion, a French monthly business magazine
  • Expansion (album), by American jazz pianist Dave Burrell, released in 2004
  • Expansions (McCoy Tyner album), 1970
  • Expansions (Lonnie Liston Smith album), 1975
  • Expansión (Mexico), a Mexican news portal linked to CNN
  • Expansion (sculpture) (2004), bronze sculpture illuminated from within
  • Expansión (Spanish newspaper), a Spanish economic daily newspaper published in Spain
  • Expansion pack in gaming, extra content for games, often simply "expansion"

Science, technology, and mathematics

  • Expansion (geometry), stretching of geometric objects with flat sides
  • Expansion (model theory), in mathematical logic, a mutual converse of a reduct
  • Expansion card, in computing, a printed circuit board that can be inserted into an expansion slot
  • Expansion chamber, on a two-stroke engine, a tuned exhaust system that enhances power output
  • Expansion joint, an assembly that absorbs heat-induced expansion and contraction of construction materials
  • Joule–Thomson effect or Joule–Thomson expansion, the decrease in temperature of a gas when it expands
  • Thermal expansion, the tendency of matter to change in shape, area, and volume in response to a change in temperature
  • Expansion of the universe, the increase of the distance between two distant parts of the universe with time

Economics

  • Expansion (economics), an increase in the market value of an economy over time

Sport

  • Expansion team, a new team in a sports league

Other uses

  • MV Expansion, a former name of American cargo liner

See also

  • Expansion chamber (disambiguation)
  • Elasticity (disambiguation)
  • Expansionism, a policy of enlarging territory or economic influence
  • Stretching

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