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Another word for enlargement

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Noun

  1. The act of increasing in dimensions, scope, or inclusiveness

    See also:

    increase

  2. The act of increasing or rising

    See also:

    increase

  3. The result or product of building up

    See also:

    increase

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Another word for enlargement

Noun

  1. Growth or extension

    See also:

    increase

  2. An enlarged photograph

    See also:

    picture

    photograph

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Sentence Examples

  • against her had been due to enlargement of the liver.

  • Some organs are subject to enlargement from deposition within them of a foreign substance (amyloid, fat, &c.).

  • 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.

  • The growth of an organic being is simply a process of enlargement, as a particle of dry gelatine may be swelled up by the intussusception of water; its death is a shrinkage, such as the swelled jelly might undergo on desiccation.

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