Definition of "widen" in İngilizce

verb

1. (intransitive) To become wide or wider.

   • His eyes widened as her negligee fell to the floor.

2. (transitive) To make wide or wider.

3. (transitive) To let out clothes to a larger size.

   • She widened his trousers for him.

4. (transitive) To broaden or extend in scope or range.

   • The police widened their enquiries.

5. (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.

   • to widen a short variable to an int variable