Expansion

Expansion may refer to:

Physics

• Metric expansion of space
• Thermal expansion
• Prandtl–Meyer expansion fan

Computer programming

• Expand (Unix)
• Inline expansion

Mathematics

• Expansion (geometry)
• Polynomial expansion
• Taylor expansion
• expansion of a graph
• The converse of a reduct, in model theory or universal algebra

Economics

• Economic expansion
• Expansionary policies

Other uses

• Expansion card, in computer hardware
• Expansion pack, in gaming
• Expansion team, in sports
• Trinucleotide repeat expansion disorder, in medicine, the result of expansion during DNA translation
• Expansion (album), by Dave Burrell
• Expansions (album), an album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner
• Expansion joint, in engineering
• Audio level expansion, in audio engineering
• Expansion, the spelled out meaning of an abbreviation or acronym/initialism