dilation
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dilation
- /daɪˈleɪʃən/ UK, US
Rhymes with -eɪʃən
Where it comes from
From dilate + -ion, late 16th c.
noun dilations
- The act of dilating.
- State of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.
- Delay. The wise queen, however she might seem to have a fair opportunity offered to her suit, finds it not good to apprehend it too suddenly; as desiring by this small dilation to prepare the ear and heart of the king for so important a request
- In morphology, a basic operation (denoted ⊕) that usually uses a structuring element for probing and expanding the shapes contained in the input image.
