coefficient of expansion

1. 1.

   the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure

   Synonymsexpansivity

   Broadercoefficient

Questions about coefficient of expansion

What does coefficient of expansion mean?

coefficient of expansion means "the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure".

What is another word for coefficient of expansion?

Close synonyms include expansivity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coefficient of expansion a common word?

coefficient of expansion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.