# Expander

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**Expander** may refer to:

- [Dynamic range compression](/source/Dynamic_range_compression) operated in reverse
- Part of the process of [signal compression](/source/Signal_compression)
- Part of the process of [companding](/source/Companding)
- A component used to connect [SCSI computer data storage](/source/Serial_Attached_SCSI#SAS_expanders), devices together
- [Turboexpander](/source/Turboexpander), a turbine for high-pressure gas
- [Expander graph](/source/Expander_graph), a sparse graph used in the combinatorics branch of mathematics
- [StuffIt Expander](/source/StuffIt_Expander), a computer file decompressor software utility
- [Micro Expander](/source/Micro_Expander), also known as the Expander, an 8-bit S-100 microcomputer released in 1981
- ["Expander" (song)](/source/Expander_(song)), a 1994 song by The Future Sound of London
- [Orthodontic expander](/source/Orthodontic_expander), a device to widen the upper jaw
- [Disclosure widget](/source/Disclosure_widget), a widget that hides non-essential settings or information, also known as an expander

## See also

- [Xpander (disambiguation)](/source/Xpander_(disambiguation))

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