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- adjective Involving
dilation (orcompression )
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Examples
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"Well, when dilational stress levels rise, microfractures open in the diorite and release trace levels of radiogenic argon from feldspars into the atmosphere."
Firestorm L.A Graf 2000
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A dilational fault splay is focused near the contact of the greenstone belt and enclosing granites.
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Analysis of the seismic wavefield generated by the blast shows the source can be characterized as 70-80 percent dilational (explosive-like) and 20-30 percent deviatoric
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Analysis of the seismic wavefield generated by the blast shows the source can be characterized as 70-80 percent dilational (explosive-like) and 20-30 percent deviatoric
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A dilational fault splay is focused near the contact of the greenstone belt and enclosing granites.
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Analysis of the seismic wavefield generated by the blast shows the source can be characterized as 70-80 percent dilational (explosive-like) and 20-30 percent deviatoric (earthquake-like).
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A subsequent 2,000 metre drill program is scheduled to commence in early 2010 and will continue to explore the deeper levels as well as to test the strike continuation of the mineralized dilational bend at Salamanca.
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Cook Medical is releasing its Ciaglia Blue Dolphin device for an elective percutaneous dilational tracheostomy (PDT), which combines balloon dilation and tracheal tube insertion into one step and promises easier and safer delivery.
Medgadget 2009
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The Vaquillas Prospect is located in a 2.5 km long x 1 km wide dilational jog between the Vaquillas and Cenizas fault segments of the Domeyko fault zone.
unknown title 2009
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No, this is the "the prose keeps flowing and the events that keep flowing from each other keep making sense so I just keep writing them down, except it's all taking place in one everlastingly long evening and am I sure this damn spaghetti supper has not slipped into the Underhill or some other time-dilational sort of place because how many things can happen with the winds and the Canada goose brothers and Janet's gran and aaaaaaaagh."
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway markgritter 2009
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