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Another word for enlargement

enlargement Synonyms

enlargement

n.

Growth or extension
augmentation, amplification, expansion; see increase 1.
An enlarged photograph
blowup, enlarged print, view; see photograph, picture 2.

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Another word for enlargement

noun

The act of increasing in dimensions, scope, or inclusiveness:
expansion, extension, spread. See increase
The act of increasing or rising:
aggrandizement, amplification, augment, augmentation, boost, buildup, escalation, growth, hike, increase, jump, multiplication, proliferation, raise, rise, swell, upsurge, upswing, upturn. See increase
The result or product of building up:
accretion, buildup, development, multiplication, proliferation. See increase

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Some organs are subject to enlargement from deposition within them of a foreign substance (amyloid, fat, &c.).
Against her had been due to enlargement of the liver.
It is the immediate cause of the phenomena of circumnutation, each cell of the circumnutating organ showing a rhythmic enlargement and decrease of its dimensions, due to the admission of more and less water into its interior.
There is, however, only one large lake in the state - Flathead (or Selish) Lake, which may be regarded as an enlargement of Flathead river; it is 27 m.
An Act of Assembly of 1753 declares pactions simoniacal whereby a minister or probationer before presentation and as a means of obtaining it bargains not to raise a process of augmentation of stipend or demand reparation or enlargement of his manse or glebe after induction.

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