Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dilation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dilation \Di*la"tion\, n. [L. dilatio. See {Dilatory}.]
Delay. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dilation \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dilation
n : the act of expanding an aperture; "the dilation of the pupil
of the eye" [syn: {dilatation}]
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