Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of dilating.

    дилатацияdilatacija

    the act of expanding an aperture

  2. (countable, uncountable)State of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.

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

  4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Delay.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Time dilation is an interesting phenomenon.

  2. This effect is called time dilation.

Translations

5 languages
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By meaning 1
act of dilating:

Origin

From dilate + -ion, late 16th c.

From dilate + -ion, late 16th c.

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