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Home Dictionary Name: expansionExpansive
Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate diffusive of much expanse wide extending as the expansive force of heat the expansive quality of air...
Expansion
Expansion, The word 'expansion' is a noun derived from the word 'expand', which is a verb. The word 'expand' means to become greater or bigger in size, to spread out, State of Gujarat v. Saurashtra Cement & Chemical Industries Ltd., (2003) 2 SCC 394: AIR 2003 SC 1132 (1135). [Bombay Electricity Duty Act, 1958, s. 3(2)(vii)(b)]...
Expansibility
The capacity of being expanded as the expansibility of air...
expansiveness
a quality characterized by magnificence of scale as the expansiveness of their extravagant lifestyle was soon curtailed...
motherboard
The board containing the main circuits of an electronic device especially computers The term is used primarily in microcomputer literature where it designates the board containing the main expansion bus and usually also the cpu On motherboards designed with an expansion bus often all of the circuits not contained on an expansion card are on the motherboard...
Carnots cycle
An ideal heat engine cycle in which the working fluid goes through the following four successive operations 1 Isothermal expansion to a desired point 2 adiabatic expansion to a desired point 3 isothermal compression to such a point that 4 adiabatic compression brings it back to its initial state...
Public policy
Public policy, connotes some matter which concerns public good and the public interest. Expression does not admit of precise definition. Concept of 'public policy' is considered to be vague, susceptible to narrow or wider meaning depending upon the content in which it is used, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. v. Saw Pipes Ltd., AIR 2003 SC 2629.Public policy, connotes some matter which concerns the public good and the public interest, Central Inland Water Transport Corporation Ltd. v. Broja Nath Ganguly, AIR 1986 SC 1571; Shri Parsar v. Municipal Board, (1997) 1 WLC 443.Public policy, demands that where fraud might have been contemplated but was not perpetrated, the defendants should not be allowed to perpetrate a new fraud. If the illegality of the transaction is trivial or venial and the plaintiff is not required to rest his case upon that illegality, then public policy demands that the defendant should not be allowed to take advantage of the position, Kedar Nath Motani v. Prahla...
brownfields
brownfields Abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination. Source: FindLaw ...
Bellows
An instrument utensil or machine which by alternate expansion and contraction or by rise and fall of the top draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes as blowing fires ventilating mines or filling the pipes of an organ with wind...
big bang theory
The theory that the known universe originated in an explosive event the big bang in which all of the matter and energy of the universe was contained in a single point and began to rapidly expand and evolve starting as high energy particles and radiation and as it cooled over time evolving into ordinary subatomic particles atoms and then stars and galaxies According to this theory the four dimensional space time continuum which we perceive as our universe continues to expand to the present time but it is unknown whether the expansion will continue indefinitely or eventually stop or even reverse possibly leading to a contraction to a single point sometimes referred to as the ldquobig crunchrdquo The competing ldquoSteady state Theoryrdquo gradually lost favor in the 1980s and 1990s See also big bang...
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