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Plural of dilation

regular plural

The plural of dilation is dilations.

Forms of dilation

Singulardilation /daɪˈleɪʃən/
Pluraldilations
Countablecountable and uncountable

Dilations in a sentence

  • We will say that the simplicial complex X is arborescent if we can obtain it by a sequence of Whitehead dilations starting from a point.2004, V[alentin] Poénaru, C. Tanasi, “Equivariant, Almost-arborescent Representations of Open Simply-connected 3-manifolds: A Finiteness…. From the entry arborescent

Meaning of dilation

  1. noun The act of dilating.
  2. noun State of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.
  3. noun Delay.

Full definition of dilation

Questions about the plural of dilation

What is the plural of dilation?
The plural of dilation is dilations.
Is dilation countable?
Dilation is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dilation (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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