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dilation
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular topic the act of expanding an aperture; "the dilation of the pupil of the eye" [syn: dilatation ]
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Dilation (or dilatation ) may refer to:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of dilate. 2 State of being dilated; expansion; dilatation. 3 (context obsolete English) delay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, formed from dilate on the mistaken assumption that the -ate in that word was the Latin verbal suffix (it is instead part of the stem); the proper form, dilatation , is older (c.1400).
Usage examples of dilation.
They traveled from world to world, accepting homage as virtual gods--seemingly ageless, protected by time dilation and the water of life from the precession of the universe outside.
Knowing that she was a heuristic construct, refined by feedback through measuring his pupillary dilation, did not make the longing less.
If we consider operating near the hot stars or near nebulae which throw off masses of hydrogen, the ramjet would really begin to take full advantage of the effects of Time Dilation in Relativity, as outlined earlier in this chapter.
A new piece of capillary dilation software just added to the thrombosis AI needs a final checkout before we can start programming it for work.
Campbell had had a few brief episodes of an irregular cardiac rhythm but that had been controlled when an astute resident found some unrelieved gastric dilation.
He had maintained a Virtual image of the stationary portal in his quarters throughout that time, listening to endless, baffling commentaries about relativistic time dilation, closed timelike curves, and Cauchy horizons.
When the dilation ended and the Universe began to converge centripetally, gradually, in that blue phase, there resulted enormous temperatures and increasingly hard radiation, which destroyed all the living matter that in the course of the preceding two billion-years had succeeded in covering the planets.
Hence youd have the compound effect of both dilations added together.
All of them were aware that due to the temporal dilations opened by Operation Chronos, a select few predark power-wielders gained advance warning of the atomic mega-cull.
The second and subsequent dilations would, as Esther had remarked, require a little more doing, since both girls would have to be in the same room, under anesthesia, at the same time.
They could no longer manage their balloon, which went whirling round and round in contending currents, and refused to obey the different dilations of the gas.
Hence you'd have the compound effect of both dilations added together.
The time dilations involved were such that once they left, there wasn't much point in going home again.
You can still find claims that time dilation applies to watches and elementary particles-and, presumably, to circadian and other rhythms in plants, animals, and microbes-but not to human biological clocks.
She explained to both me and Jack that this first stage of labor involved the dilation of the cervix, the birth canal.