expansion slot

noun

Updated on: 20 Mar 2018

Definition of expansion slot

: a socket on the motherboard of a computer into which an expansion card may be inserted

Recent Examples of expansion slot from the Web

Nashville has already been selected for one of the two expansion slots, and Cincinnati and Detroit - both backed by billionaires - want next-level soccer as well.

— benjy egel, sacbee, "‘Lady Bird’ gets snubbed at the Oscars, and that’s so Sacramento | The Sacramento Bee," 5 Mar. 2018
A month later, in a front-page story in The Journal on Jan. 22, 1968, it was announced that Milwaukee had landed one of the two expansion slots for the league's 1968-'69 season (Phoenix won the other one).

— chris foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "When Milwaukee became major league again, thanks to the Bucks, in 1968," 16 Jan. 2018
But Miami eventually is expected to figure it all out, and there’s still one expansion slot available that originally was supposed to be filled this month.

— brian straus, SI.com, "Nashville Secures MLS Place, But Questions Remain for Its Team, Further Expansion," 20 Dec. 2017

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