become or make larger or more extensive: [no object] : their business expanded into other hotels and properties | [with object] : baby birds cannot expand and contract their lungs.
• [no object] Physics (of the universe) undergo a continuous change whereby, according to theory based on observed redshifts, all the galaxies recede from one another.
• [no object] (expand on) give a fuller version or account of: Anne expanded on the theory.
become or make larger or more extensive: [no object] : their business expanded into other hotels and properties | [with object] : baby birds cannot expand and contract their lungs.
• [no object] Physics (of the universe) undergo a continuous change whereby, according to theory based on observed redshifts, all the galaxies recede from one another.
• [no object] (expand on) give a fuller version or account of: Anne expanded on the theory.