Synonym of expansion team

plural of expansion team

(sports, chiefly Canada, US) A new team in a sports league, usually from a city that has not hosted a team in that league before, formed with the intention of satisfying the local population's demand for a local team.

A field of psychology taking a subject-based, inductive approach to aesthetics.

(informal, humorous) A state of extreme uncleanliness, especially one which involves food mess left for an excessive period of time that is liable to spoil, rot, mold, etc.

(physics, historical) An attempt in 1887 to detect the existence of the luminiferous aether by comparing the speed of light in perpendicular directions.

plural of explanatory fiction

Believing in, or conforming to, notions of gender that go beyond the traditional gender binary.

Alternative form of Joule-Thomson effect

(physics) Any of various spectroscopic tests of the isotropy of mass and space, originally to test Mach's principle and now understood to be important tests of Lorentz invariance.