dilation
French, noun/di.la.sjɔ̃/
dilation is spelled D-I-L-A-T-I-O-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written French, the 244,837th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dilation is a French feminine noun meaning “dilation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de différer, de retarder”.
What does dilation mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedilation
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de différer, de retarder. 2. Phénomène d’assimilation d’aperture à distance sur une voyelle tonique par la voyelle d'une syllabe finale atone.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of dilation
- dilations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dilation?
- /di.la.sjɔ̃/
- \di.la.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dilation in French?
dilation appears about once in every 60 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).