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Enlargement vs Dilation - What's the difference?

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Enlargement is a related term of dilation.


As nouns the difference between enlargement and dilation

is that enlargement is the act of making something larger while dilation is the act of dilating.

enlargement

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of making something larger.
    • Rick was ashamed about the size of his penis, so he had a penis enlargement .
  • (figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
    • ‘’’1874 Thomas Hardy, ‘’Far From the Madding Crowd’’, 2005 Barnes & Noble Classics publication of 1912 Wessex edition, p337:
  • :* Bathsheba underwent the enlargement of her husband's absence from hours to days with a slight feeling of surprise, and a slight feeling of relief; yet neither sensation rose at any time far above the level commonly designated as indifference.
  • An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.

    • dilation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of dilating.
  • State of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.
  • (obsolete) Delay.
    • (Bishop Hall)

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