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Vinony

dilation

noun

  1. increase in volume, in medicinal context
  2. causing to widen
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /daɪˈleɪʃən/

noun

Etymology: From dilate + -ion, late 16th c.

  1. The act of dilating.
  2. State of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.
  3. 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”

  4. In morphology, a basic operation (denoted ⊕) that usually uses a structuring element for probing and expanding the shapes contained in the input image.