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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The act or process of expanding; dilation.
  2. n. The condition of being expanded or stretched.
  3. n. A dilated formation or part.
  4. n. Medicine The condition of being abnormally enlarged or dilated, as of an organ, orifice, or tubular structure: dilatation of the stomach. Also called dilation.
  5. n. Lengthy explanation or elaboration of a subject in writing or speech.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of expanding; expansion, as by heat; a spreading or enlarging in all directions; the state of being expanded or distended; distention.
  2. n. Specifically Diffuseness of speech; prolixity; enlargement.
  3. n. An abnormal enlargement of an aperture or a canal of the body, or one made for the purposes of surgical or medical treatment. See expansion.
  4. n. A dilated part of anything; specifically, in zoology, a dilated portion of an organ or a mark.
  5. n. In elasticity, change of volume under stress.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Prolixity; diffuse discourse.
  2. n. The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on all sides; the state of being dilated; dilation.
  3. n. A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete Prolixity; diffuse discourse.
  2. n. The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on al� sides; the state of being dilated; dilation.
  3. n. (Anat.) A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the act of expanding an aperture
  2. n. the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions

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