Dilation
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The term dilation may have a number of meanings:
In physiology, where it is synonymous with dilatation, it may mean:
- Pupil dilation of the eye
- Dilation of blood vessels (vasodilation)
- Cervical dilation (or dilation of the cervix) in childbirth
- Dilation and curettage (surgical dilation)
- Dilation following vaginoplasty
In mathematics:
In physics:
- Dilation (or dilatation) is a scaling transformation (see scale invariance and conformal symmetry)
- Time dilation
In morphological image processing (a subset of digital image processing):
In music:
- Dilate, a 1996 album by Ani DiFranco
- Dilate (musical project), a solo musical project by Victor Wulf of Vampire Rodents