dilatation

Other forms of dilatation

plural

dilatations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dilatation

What does dilatation mean?

dilatation means "the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dilatation?

dilatation has 4 syllables: dil-a-ta-tion. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˌdɪləˈteɪʃən/.

What is another word for dilatation?

Close synonyms include distension, distention, dilation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dilatation a common word?

dilatation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dilatation?

89 words rhyme with dilatation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.