Meaning of DILATION
| Pronunciation: | | dI'leyshun
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- [n] the act of expanding an aperture; "the dilation of the pupil of the eye"
- [n] a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular topic
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| | Synonyms: | | dilatation |
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| | See Also: | | discourse, discussion, enlargement, expansion, mydriasis, treatment, vasodilation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Di*la"tion\, n. [L. dilatio. See {Dilatory}.]
Delay. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
\Di*la"tion\, n. [From dilate, v., cf. {Dilatation},
{Dilator}.]
The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated;
expansion; dilatation. --Mrs. Browning.
At first her eye with slow dilation rolled. --Tennyson.
A gigantic dilation of the hateful figure. --Dickens.
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| | Related Terms: | | aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, boil, bump, bunion, burlesque, carbuncle, caricature, corn, cyst, development, diastole, dilatation, distension, dropsy, edema, elaboration, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, expatiation, explication, extravagance, extreme, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, furuncle, gassiness, grandiloquence, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflation, inordinacy, intumescence, lump, magnification, meteorism, overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overstatement, pimple, pock, prodigality, profuseness, puff, puffery, puffiness, puffing, puffing up, pustule, rising, sebaceous cyst, sensationalism, stretching, superlative, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tall talk, touting, travesty, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, unfolding, wen, windiness, working-out |
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