展開 (Tenkai) is a Japanese noun meaning “development, evolution, progression, unfolding”.
Meanings
- noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbdevelopment; evolution; progression; unfolding; (plot) twist
- noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbexpansion; spreading out; extending; deployment; building up
- noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbexpansion (of an algebraic expression)
- noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbdevelopment (of a three-dimensional shape)
- noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbextraction (of compressed data); decompression; unpacking
- noun, suru verb, transitive verbsharing (information)
Examples
戦況は我々に有利に展開している。
The war is going in our favor.
こんな展開を誰が予想したかしら。
Who'd have thought this is how the pieces fit?
物語の筋はある島を舞台に展開する。
The action of the story takes place on an island.
Sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).