Expansion vs. Growth — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Expansion and Growth
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Expansion
The act or process of expanding
The new nation's expansion westward.
Growth
The process of growing.
Expansion
The state of being expanded.
Growth
Full development; maturity.
Expansion
An expanded part
An expansion of a river.
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Growth
Development from a lower or simpler to a higher or more complex form; evolution.
Expansion
A product of expanding
A book that is an expansion of the author's PhD thesis.
Growth
An increase, as in size, number, value, or strength; extension or expansion
Population growth.
Expansion
The extent or amount by which something has expanded.
Growth
Something that grows or has grown
A new growth of grass.
Expansion
A quantity written in an extended form, such as in a sum or product of terms.
Growth
An abnormal mass of tissue, such as a tumor, growing in or on a living organism.
Expansion
The process of obtaining this form.
Growth
A result of growth; a product
Concerns that are a growth of the new responsibilities.
Expansion
An expanse.
Growth
Expected to have or investing in businesses expected to have higher-than-average increases in revenues and returns
A growth stock.
A growth fund.
Expansion
A period of increased economic or business activity.
Growth
An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
Expansion
An act, process, or instance of expanding.
The expansion of metals and plastics in response to heat is well understood.
Growth
(economics) economic growth
Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.
Expansion
The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
Look up the expansion of 1018 steel at stick welding temps and figure out how far this thing's gonna bend once we weld it up.
Growth
An increase in psychological strength or resilience; an increased ability to overcome adversity.
Struggle, disappointment, and criticism all contribute to a person's growth.
Expansion
(building) A new addition.
My new office is in the expansion behind the main building.
Growth
(biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
Expansion
A product to be used with a previous product.
This expansion requires the original game board.
Growth
(biology) Something that grows or has grown.
Expansion
That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
Growth
(pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
Expansion
(steam engines) The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
Growth
The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth.
Expansion
(writing, editing, audio content) The replacement of a short name (e.g., acronym, initialism, alphanumeric symbol, abbreviation) with the longer name that is synonymous with it, as when spelling out acronyms to ensure clarity for a general audience.
Expansion of acronyms is often helpful for nonexpert readers (anacronyms excluded).
Growth
That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.
Nature multiplies her fertile growth.
Expansion
The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.
Growth
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level;
He proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
Expansion
That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a sheet or of a lake; the expansion was formed of metal.
The starred expansion of the skies.
Growth
A progression from simpler to more complex forms;
The growth of culture
Expansion
Space through which anything is expanded; also, pure space.
Lost in expansion, void and infinite.
Growth
A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important;
The increase in unemployment
The growth of population
Expansion
An increase in the production of goods and services over time, and in the volume of business transactions, generally associated with an increase in employment and an increase in the money supply. Opposite of contraction.
Growth
Vegetation that has grown;
A growth of trees
The only growth was some salt grass
Expansion
The developed result of an indicated operation; as, the expansion of (a + b)2 is a2 + 2ab + b2.
Growth
The gradual beginning or coming forth;
Figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece
Expansion
The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
Growth
(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
Expansion
The enlargement of the ship mathematically from a model or drawing to the full or building size, in the process of construction.
Growth
Something grown or growing;
A growth of hair
Expansion
An enlarged or extended version of something, such as a writing or discourse; as, the journal article is an expansion of the lecture she gave.
Expansion
An expansion joint. See below.
Expansion
The act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
Expansion
A discussion that provides additional information
Expansion
Adding information or detail
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