Expansion
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- On Wikipedia, "expansion" may refer to Wikipedia:Requests for expansion.
Expansion can have several meanings, including:
- In physics: Expansion of space, thermal expansion
- In computer hardware: an Expansion card
- In computer programming: In-line expansion
- In computer gaming: an expansion pack
- In mathematics: polynomial expansion or the expansion of a graph
- An expansion team in sports.
- In medicine, a trinucleotide repeat expansion disorder is the result of expansion during DNA tranlation.
- In publishing "something that results from the act of expanding the book is an expansion of a lecture series]," Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, 5 a, (1994-1996)
- In the computer game WarCraft 3 it means building a secondary base to gather more resources.