expanded

expanded
expandedness, n.
/ik span"did/, adj.
1. increased in area, bulk, or volume; enlarged: an expanded version of a story.
2. spread out; extended: the expanded frontiers of the Roman Empire.
3. Also, extended. Print. (of type) wider in proportion to its height. Cf. condensed (def. 4).
[1400-50; late ME; see EXPAND, -ED2]

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