noun
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the act of opening, expanding.
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a stretching, spreading or being stretched or spread.
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a cleaning of cotton fibres after separated from the seeds.
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a giving or report of complete or nearly complete information about something; such detailed information.
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the act or an instance of expressing something; expression.
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(math.) a reducing of one quantity from another or finding the difference between two quantities; subtraction.
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a justifying something by reasoning; justification.