Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
DILATION
dilation, dilatation
(noun) the act of expanding an aperture; “the dilation of the pupil of the eye”
dilation
(noun) a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular topic
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
dilation (countable and uncountable, plural dilations)
The act of dilating.
State of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.
Synonyms: expansion, dilatation
(obsolete) Delay.
Synonyms: cunctation, hold-up, Thesaurus:delay
(math) In morphology, a basic operation (denoted ⊕) that usually uses a structuring element for probing and expanding the shapes contained in the input image.
Anagrams
• dial into, dilatino, laid into
Source: Wiktionary
Di*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. dilatio. See Dilatory.]
Definition: Delay. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Di*la"tion, n. Etym: [From dilate, v., cf. Dilatation, Dilator.]
Definition: The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation. Mrs. Browning. At first her eye with slow dilation rolled. Tennyson. A gigantic dilation of the hateful figure. Dickens.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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