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Dilation (or dilatation) may refer to:

• Cervical dilation, the widening of the cervix in childbirth, miscarriage etc.
• Coronary dilation, or coronary reflex
• Dilation and curettage, the opening of the cervix and surgical removal of the contents of the uterus
• Dilation and evacuation, the dilation of the cervix and evacuation of the contents of the uterus
• Esophageal dilation, a procedure for widening a narrowed esophagus
• Pupillary dilation (also called mydriasis), the widening of the pupil of the eye
• Vaginal dilation, the dilation of the vaginal canal
• Vasodilation, the widening of luminal diameter in blood vessels

• Dilation (affine geometry), an affine transformation
• Dilation (metric space), a function from a metric space into itself
• Dilation (operator theory), a dilation of an operator on a Hilbert space
• Dilation (morphology), an operation in mathematical morphology
• Scaling (geometry), including:
  • Homogeneous dilation (homothety), the scalar multiplication operator on a vector space or affine space
  • Inhomogeneous dilation, where scale factors may differ in different directions

• Dilation (physics), size increase
• Thermal expansion of crystalline triglycerides is referred to as dilation
• Scale invariance, a feature of objects or laws that do not change if length scales (or energy scales) are multiplied by a common factor
• Time dilation, the observation that another's clock is ticking at a slower rate as measured by one's own clock

• Dilate (Bardo Pond album)
• Dilate (Ani DiFranco album)
• Dilate (musical project), ambient solo project of Vampire Rodents keyboardist Victor Wulf
• Dilation (album), 2011 album by comedian Rory Scovel
• Dialate, 1996 song by Linkin Park

• Dilution (disambiguation)

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