dilation

dilation
Synonyms and related words:
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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  • Dilation — (or dilatation) refers to an enlargement or expansion in bulk or extent, the opposite of contraction. It derives from the Latin dilatare, to spread wide . In physiology: Pupillary dilation, dilation of the pupil of the eye Cervical dilation, the… …   Wikipedia

  • dilation — ● dilation nom féminin (latin dilatio, onis) Phénomène d assimilation phonétique à distance. (Par exemple, en français, chercher est issu par dilation de sercher.) ● dilation (homonymes) nom féminin (latin dilatio, onis) dilations forme conjuguée …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • 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. [1913 Webster] At first her eye with slow dilation rolled. Tennyson. [1913 Webster] A… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Dilation — Di*la tion, n. [L. dilatio. See {Dilatory}.] Delay. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Dilatĭon — (v. lat., Rechtsw.), Aufschub, die Verlängerung einer, zu einem rechtlichen Acte gewährten Frist; daher Dilationsgesuche (s.u. Termin) u. Dilationsschein, Bescheinigung über die gestattete Fristverlängerung. Dilatorisch, aufschiebend, verzögernd; …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Dilation — (lat.), Aufschub, Frist, besonders Vertagung eines Prozesses, vom Richter wegen fehlender Zeugen, Beweise etc. bewilligt …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Dilation — (lat.), Aufschub, die zur Vornahme eines rechtlichen Aktes gewährte Frist; dilatōrisch, aufschiebend, verzögernd; dilatorische Einreden, dem Klageanspruch nicht dauernd, sondern nur zeitweise entgegenstehende; dilatorische Frist, s. Frist.… …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Dilation — (lat. dilatio), Aufschub, besonders einer gerichtlichen Frist; dilatorisch, aufschiebend; Dilatorium, der durch richterliche Entscheidung gegebene Aufschub …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • dilation — index extension (expansion), inflation (increase) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • dilation — 1590s, formed from DILATE (Cf. 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 (Cf. dilatation), is older (c.1400) …   Etymology dictionary

  • dilation — [dī lā′shən, dilā′shən] n. 1. a dilating or being dilated, as of the pupil of an eye, a blood vessel, or the cervix during childbirth: cf. DILATATION 2. a dilated part …   English World dictionary

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