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
The faculty is inseparable from man's consciousness of immortality and of an indefinitely expansible nature which ever makes him discontented with the present.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren
Of the founders of the lasting and expansible theories of natural science, it may be said, that "thoughts beyond their thoughts to those high bards were given."
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir
The concertina consists of two hexagonal or rectangular keyboards connected by a long expansible bellows of many folds similar to that of the accordion.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
For this purpose an expansible, metallic core is employed, the arrangement of which is shown in Figs.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various
