Dilation

dilation
    n 1: a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular
         topic
    2: the act of expanding an aperture; "the dilation of the pupil
       of the eye" [syn: {dilation}, {dilatation}]
    

Dilation \Di*la"tion\, n. [L. dilatio. See {Dilatory}.]
   Delay. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
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Dilation \Di*la"tion\, n. [From dilate, v., cf. {Dilatation},
   {Dilator}.]
   The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated;
   expansion; dilatation. --Mrs. Browning.
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         At first her eye with slow dilation rolled. --Tennyson.
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         A gigantic dilation of the hateful figure. --Dickens.
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91 Moby Thesaurus words for "dilation":
      aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, bloat,
      bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, boil, bump, bunion, burlesque,
      carbuncle, caricature, corn, cyst, development, diastole,
      dilatation, distension, dropsy, edema, elaboration, enhancement,
      enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance,
      expansion, expatiation, explication, extravagance, extreme,
      flatulence, flatulency, flatus, furuncle, gassiness,
      grandiloquence, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism,
      inflation, inordinacy, intumescence, lump, magnification,
      meteorism, overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overstatement,
      pimple, pock, prodigality, profuseness, puff, puffery, puffiness,
      puffing, puffing up, pustule, rising, sebaceous cyst,
      sensationalism, stretching, superlative, swell, swellage, swelling,
      swollenness, tall talk, touting, travesty, tumefaction, tumescence,
      tumidity, tumidness, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity,
      turgidness, tympanism, tympany, unfolding, wen, windiness,
      working-out