Expansion

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 MV Dennis Winn

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with expansion
• All pages with titles containing expansion
• Expansion chamber (disambiguation)
• Elasticity (disambiguation)
• Expansionism, a policy of enlarging territory or economic influence
• Stretching