- Dilation - Enlargement - Increase in sound - Increase in voltage - Magnification - The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions;
enlargement; extension. - The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity
of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect;
diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the
particulars of a subject.
- Enlargement - The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of
being expanded; dilation; enlargement. - That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the
expansion of a sheet or of a lake; the expansion was formed of metal. - Space through which anything is expanded; also, pure
space. - Enlargement or extension of business transactions; esp.,
increase of the circulation of bank notes. - The developed result of an indicated operation; as, the
expansion of (a + b)2 is a2 + 2ab + b2. - The operation of steam in a cylinder after its
communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues
to exert pressure upon the moving piston.