expansible

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However absurd the cereal wars may appear, Roth says he is simply trying to act before the really big guys muscle in on his highly expansible idea.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dirichlet laid down certain definite sufficient conditions in regard to the nature of a function which is expansible, and found under these conditions the limiting value of the sum of n terms of the series.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

It is a fixed quantity; the appetite is indefinitely expansible.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Maclaren, Alexander

Genital tuft: in Lepidoptera; an expansible tuft of fine hair believed to be scent-producing.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

Their parts are highly movable; they are compressible and expansible, and their volumes are inversely as the weight compressing them.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir