The act of expanding; expansion; a spreading or extending in all directions; the state of being expanded; opposed to contraction. dilatation differs from extension, as the latter is applied to lines and surfaces; the former to bodies that spread, open or enlarge in all directions. A line or a plain is extended; a bladder, an artery, a balloon is dilated.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
3. A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ.
Increase Roget’s Thesaurus §35
N. increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension, dilatation, increment, accretion, accession, development, growth, aggrandizement, aggravation, rise, ascent, exaggeration, exacerbation, spread, flood tide, gain, produce, product, profit
V. increase, augment, add to, enlarge, dilate, grow, wax, get ahead, gain strength, advance, run up, shoot up, rise, ascend, sprout, aggrandize, raise, exalt, deepen, heighten, strengthen, intensify, enhance, magnify, redouble, aggravate, exaggerate, exasperate, exacerbate, add fuel to the flame, oleum addere camino, superadd, spread
Adj. increased, on the increase, undiminished, additional
Adv. crescendo
Phr. vires acquirit eundo
Rarity Roget’s Thesaurus §322
N. rarity, tenuity, absence of solidity, # subtility, subtilty, subtlety, sponginess, compressibility, rarefaction, expansion, dilatation, inflation, subtilization, vaporization, evaporation, diffusion, gassification, ether
Adj. rare, subtile, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible, flimsy, slight, light, cavernous, spongy, rarefied, unsubstantial, uncompact, incompressed, rarefiable
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