Usually means: Expansion or enlargement in size.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. dilation: Merriam-Webster
  2. dilation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dilation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dilation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dilation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dilation, dilation: Wordnik
  7. dilation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dilation: Wiktionary
  9. dilation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dilation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dilation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dilation: Dictionary.com
  13. dilation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Dilation (affine geometry), Dilation (disambiguation), Dilation (mathematics), Dilation (metric space), Dilation (morphology), Dilation (operator theory), Dilation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dilation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dilation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dilation: Rhymezone
  18. Dilation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dilation: FreeDictionary.org
  20. dilation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. dilation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dilation: Health & Beauty Glossary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dilation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dilation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. dilation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Dilation: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. dilation: Natural Health glossary
  5. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
  9. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  10. dilation: Medical dictionary
  11. Dilation: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Dilation: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Dilation: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. Dilation: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  5. dilation: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dilation: Beauty & Health Glossary

(Note: See dilations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dilation)

noun:  The act of dilating.
noun:  State of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.
noun:  (obsolete) Delay.
noun:  (mathematics) 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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