COMPRESSIONS Antonyms

• a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular topic

• the act of expanding an aperture

• the act of expanding by pressure from within

• the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions

• the quality of being elongated

• an addition to the length of something

• the act of lengthening something

• the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope

• the state of being enlarged

• a discussion that provides additional information

• a photographic print that has been enlarged

• the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope

• a function expressed as a sum or product of terms

• a discussion that provides additional information

• adding information or detail

• a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt

• act of expanding in scope; making more widely available

• the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions

• an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students

• act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb

• a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename

• the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to

• the ability to raise the working leg high in the air

• amount or degree or range to which something extends

• an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line

• an addition to the length of something

• an addition that extends a main building

• a quantity that is added

• a change resulting in an increase

• a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important

• the amount by which something increases

• the act of increasing something

• become bigger or greater in amount

• make bigger or more

• something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

• the act of projecting out from something

• act of expanding by lengthening or widening

• exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent

• restoring compressed information to its normal form for use or display

• relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure)

• a decrease in the density of something