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expansion
The amount, degree, or extent of expansion
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  1. The amount, degree, or extent of expansion
  2. A product of expanding:
  3. An increase in the volume of a substance while its mass remains the same. Expansion is usually due to heating. When substances are heated, the molecular bonds between their particles are weakened, and the particles move faster, causing the substance to expand.
augmentation
The act or process of augmenting.
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  1. The act or process of augmenting.
  2. (Music) Variation of a theme by lengthening, usually doubling, the time value of the notes
  3. A thing that augments; addition; increase
amplification
(Genetics) The process by which extra copies of a gene or a DNA sequence are formed.
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  1. (Genetics) The process by which extra copies of a gene or a DNA sequence are formed.
  2. An increase in the magnitude or strength of an electric current, a force, or another physical quantity, such as a radio signal.
  3. (Physics) The process of increasing the magnitude of a variable quantity, especially the magnitude of voltage, power, or current, without altering any other quality.
blowup
(Informal) An angry or hysterical outburst
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  1. (Informal) An angry or hysterical outburst
  2. An enlarged photograph
  3. An outburst of temper.
view
An urban encumbrance prohibiting the building of anything that would obstruct a person’s view from his or her window.
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  1. An urban encumbrance prohibiting the building of anything that would obstruct a person’s view from his or her window.
  2. A way of showing or seeing something, as from a particular position or angle:
  3. Field of vision:
expansion
That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
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  1. That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
  2. (Mathematics) A quantity written in an extended form, such as in a sum or product of terms.
  3. An increase in the volume of a substance while its mass remains the same. Expansion is usually due to heating. When substances are heated, the molecular bonds between their particles are weakened, and the particles move faster, causing the substance to expand.
extension
(Computers) A set of characters that follow a filename and are separated from it by a period, used to identify the kind of file:
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  1. (Computers) A set of characters that follow a filename and are separated from it by a period, used to identify the kind of file:
  2. An extending or being extended
  3. The act of extending or the condition of being extended:
spread
The extent to which something is spread or can be spread
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  1. The extent to which something is spread or can be spread
  2. The extent or limit to which something is or can be spread:
  3. The act or process of spreading:
aggrandizement
The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement.
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  1. The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement.
amplification
Matter, details, etc. added to amplify a statement, report, etc.
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  1. Matter, details, etc. added to amplify a statement, report, etc.
  2. The result of such a process.
  3. (Physics) The process of increasing the magnitude of a variable quantity, especially the magnitude of voltage, power, or current, without altering any other quality.
augment
(Linguistics) The prefixation of a vowel accompanying a past tense, especially of Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
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  1. (Linguistics) The prefixation of a vowel accompanying a past tense, especially of Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
  2. (Gram.) A prefixed vowel or a lengthening or diphthongization of the initial vowel to show past time in Greek and Sanskrit verbs
  3. (Obs.) An increase
augmentation
The act or process of augmenting.
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  1. The act or process of augmenting.
  2. (Music) The presentation of a theme in notes of usually double time value.
  3. A thing that augments; addition; increase
boost
A linear map from one reference frame to another in which each coordinate is increased or decreased by an independent constant or linear function. A boost corresponds to a shift of the entire coordinate system without any rotation of its axes.
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  1. A linear map from one reference frame to another in which each coordinate is increased or decreased by an independent constant or linear function. A boost corresponds to a shift of the entire coordinate system without any rotation of its axes.
  2. An increase:
  3. An increase in amount, power, etc.
buildup
The result of building up:
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  1. The result of building up:
  2. An accumulation; an increase; a gradual development.
  3. A gradual increase in amount, power, influence, etc.; expansion
growth
Degree of increase in size, weight, power, etc.
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  1. Degree of increase in size, weight, power, etc.
  2. An increase, as in size, number, value, or strength; extension or expansion:
  3. The full extent of such increase
hike
A long walk or march.
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  1. A long walk or march.
  2. An often abrupt increase or rise:
increase
The amount or rate by which something is increased:
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  1. The amount or rate by which something is increased:
  2. Growth, enlargement, etc.
  3. The act of increasing:
jump
A structure or course from which a jump is made:
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  1. A structure or course from which a jump is made:
  2. A condition of nervousness. Often used with the.
  3. A sudden rise, as in prices
multiplication
The act or process of multiplying or the condition of being multiplied.
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  1. The act or process of multiplying or the condition of being multiplied.
  2. Any of certain analogous operations involving mathematical objects other than numbers.
  3. A mathematical operation performed on a pair of numbers in order to derive a third number called a product. For positive integers, multiplication consists of adding a number (the multiplicand) to itself a specified number of times. Thus multiplying 6 by 3 means adding 6 to itself three times. The operation of multiplication is extended to other real numbers according to the rules governing the multiplicative properties of positive integers.
proliferation
(Countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
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  1. (Countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
  2. (Uncountable) The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.
  3. (Uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
raise
The act of raising or increasing.
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  1. The act of raising or increasing.
  2. An increase in amount
  3. An increase in salary.
rise
An origin, beginning, or source:
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  1. An origin, beginning, or source:
  2. Occasion or opportunity:
  3. (Chiefly British) An increase in salary or wages; a raise.
swell
A rise in the land; a rounded elevation.
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  1. A rise in the land; a rounded elevation.
  2. (Music) A gradual increase in volume (crescendo), usually followed by a gradual decrease (decrescendo)
  3. An increase in loudness of sound
upsurge
A surge upward
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  1. A surge upward
  2. A sudden strong rise or flow
  3. A rapid or abrupt rise:
upswing
An upward swing or trend.
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  1. An upward swing or trend.
  2. (By extension) an upward trend or an increase in activity
  3. An increase, as in movement or business activity.
upturn
An upward turn, curve, or trend
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  1. An upward turn, curve, or trend
  2. An upward turn or trend, especially in business activity or profit
accretion
In succession law, the increase in an heir or legatee’s interest in property when a co-heir or co-legatee dies before the property vests, rejects his inheritance or legacy, fails to comply with a condition to be met before vesting, or otherwise becomes incapable of taking the property.
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  1. In succession law, the increase in an heir or legatee’s interest in property when a co-heir or co-legatee dies before the property vests, rejects his inheritance or legacy, fails to comply with a condition to be met before vesting, or otherwise becomes incapable of taking the property.
  2. (Geology) The gradual extension of land by natural forces, as in the addition of sand to a beach by ocean currents, or the extension of a floodplain through the deposition of sediments by repeated flooding.
  3. Growth or increase in size by gradual external addition, fusion, or inclusion.
buildup
The result of building up:
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  1. The result of building up:
  2. A gradual increase in amount, power, influence, etc.; expansion
  3. An accumulation; an increase; a gradual development.
development
The central section of a movement in sonata form, in which the theme is elaborated and explored.
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  1. The central section of a movement in sonata form, in which the theme is elaborated and explored.
  2. A developing or being developed
  3. The organized activity of soliciting donations or grants; fundraising.
multiplication
Any of certain analogous operations involving mathematical objects other than numbers.
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  1. Any of certain analogous operations involving mathematical objects other than numbers.
  2. The act or process of multiplying or the condition of being multiplied.
  3. A mathematical operation performed on a pair of numbers in order to derive a third number called a product. For positive integers, multiplication consists of adding a number (the multiplicand) to itself a specified number of times. Thus multiplying 6 by 3 means adding 6 to itself three times. The operation of multiplication is extended to other real numbers according to the rules governing the multiplicative properties of positive integers.
proliferation
(Uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
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  1. (Uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
  2. (Countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
  3. (Uncountable) The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.
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  • against her had been due to enlargement of the liver.

  • Some organs are subject to enlargement from deposition within them of a foreign substance (amyloid, fat, &c.).

  • It is the immediate cause of the phenomena of circumnutation, each cell of the circumnutating organ showing a rhythmic enlargement and decrease of its dimensions, due to the admission of more and less water into its interior.

  • There is, however, only one large lake in the state - Flathead (or Selish) Lake, which may be regarded as an enlargement of Flathead river; it is 27 m.

  • The growth of an organic being is simply a process of enlargement, as a particle of dry gelatine may be swelled up by the intussusception of water; its death is a shrinkage, such as the swelled jelly might undergo on desiccation.

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