Dilation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of expanding or the state of being expanded.
  • n. Medicine See dilatation.
  • n. A lengthy spoken or written discussion on a topic: "an Edith Whartonesque dilation on a social class steeped in hypocrisy” ( Caroline Seebohm).
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of dilating.
  • n. State of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.
  • n. Delay.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Delay.
  • n. The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of dilating; expansion; dilatation
  • n. Delay.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of expanding an aperture
  • n. a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular topic
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    discussion    treatment    discourse   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    delay    expansion    dilatation   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dilatation    constriction    distention    effacement    elongation   
     
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