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📚 Glossary Term

Dilation

📖
Definition A transformation that enlarges or reduces a figure by a scale factor.

🧒 In Simple Words

A dilation makes a shape bigger or smaller by the same scale amount.

📌 Example

A dilation with scale factor 2 doubles every side length.

âœī¸ Use It in a Sentence

"The map image was created with a dilation."

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