Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word DILATION

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Definitions of DILATION

1. The act of dilating.
2. State of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.
3. (obsolete) Delay.
4. (math) In morphology, a basic operation (denoted ⊕) that usually uses a structuring element for probing and expanding the shapes contained in the input image.

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Examples of Using DILATION in a Sentence

• Intact dilation and extraction (D&X, IDX, or intact D&E) is a surgical procedure that terminates and removes an intact fetus from the uterus.
• This result appears puzzling because each twin sees the other twin as moving, and so, as a consequence of an incorrect and naive application of time dilation and the principle of relativity, each should paradoxically find the other to have aged less.
• Side effects of αMT include agitation, restlessness, confusion, lethargy, pupil dilation, jaw clenching, and rapid heart rate, among others.
• Thus, "fear" might be operationally defined as specified changes in heart rate, galvanic skin response, pupil dilation, and blood pressure.
• The so-called machine was supposed to measure the subject's pupil dilation (pupillary response test), in response to the erotic images and words.
• Lorentz might then have seen that the transformation introduced relativity of simultaneity, and also time dilation.
• An intracranial aneurysm, also known as a cerebral aneurysm, is a cerebrovascular disorder characterized by a localized dilation or ballooning of a blood vessel in the brain due to a weakness in the vessel wall.
• While the individual components in Euclidean space and time might differ due to length contraction and time dilation, in Minkowski spacetime, all frames of reference will agree on the total interval in spacetime between events.
• The geometric transformation represented by a diagonalizable matrix is an inhomogeneous dilation (or anisotropic scaling).
• Subsequently, Hermann Minkowski (1907) introduced the concept of proper time which further clarified the meaning of time dilation.
• During the rest of the 1960s and most of the 1970s, MM dealt essentially with binary images, treated as sets, and generated a large number of binary operators and techniques: Hit-or-miss transform, dilation, erosion, opening, closing, granulometry, thinning, skeletonization, ultimate erosion, conditional bisector, and others.
• Yet in relativity theory the constancy of light velocity in all inertial frames in connection with relativity of simultaneity and time dilation destroys this equality.
• Gastric dilatation volvulus (GDV), also known as gastric dilation, twisted stomach, or gastric torsion, is a medical condition that affects dogs and rarely cats and guinea pigs, in which the stomach becomes overstretched and rotated by excessive gas content.
• Carhart found that the 2003 act "departs in material ways" from the Nebraska law and that it pertains only to a specific abortion procedure, intact dilation and extraction.
• The song is directed to the average, working-class Panamanian, with such lyrics as "Ahead the shovel and pick; At work without any more dilation".
• The relativistic Doppler effect is different from the non-relativistic Doppler effect as the equations include the time dilation effect of special relativity and do not involve the medium of propagation as a reference point.
• Cycloplegia with accompanying mydriasis (dilation of pupil) is usually due to topical application of muscarinic antagonists such as atropine and cyclopentolate.
• NED, acronym for "Nasal EPAP Dilator," a term used for a nasal device that combines nasal dilation with nasal EPAP (Expiratory Positive Air Pressure) to treat snoring and sleep disordered breathing.
• The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists reports that 23% of abortion providers offer abortions at 20 weeks of gestation and later, most often using a method called dilation and evacuation (D&E).
• Dilation and curettage, a medical procedure involving the dilation of the cervix to remove uterine contents.

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