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Expression

ɪkˈsprɛʃn

Expression definitions
noun
expression expressions
  1. the action of making known one's thoughts or feelings

    "the prisoners developed a dialect as an everyday means of expression"

    • the conveying of feeling in a work of art or in the performance of a piece of music

      "the testimony of musicians who worked with him proves that his overwhelming concern was with expression"

  2. a look on someone's face that conveys a particular emotion

    "a sad expression"

  3. a word or phrase, especially an idiomatic one, used to convey an idea

    "we have an expression, ‘You don't get owt for nowt.’"

    idiom phrase idiomatic expression set phrase
    • a collection of symbols that jointly express a quantity

      "the expression for the circumference of a circle is 2πr"

  4. the production of something by pressing it out

    "essential oils obtained by distillation or expression"

  5. the appearance in a phenotype of a characteristic or effect attributed to a particular gene

    "expression of the TAT gene is restricted to the parenchymal cells"