enlargement meaning
ENWEnlargement
- Enlargement may refer to:
- the growth in membership of political entities:
- Enlargement of the European Union is the political process for integrating countries into the European Union.
- Enlargement of the African Union
- Enlargement of the Arab League
- Enlargement of the United Nations
- Enlargement of NATO
- Enlargement of Switzerland
- Enlargement of the European Space Agency
- in other contexts:
- In mathematics, an enlargement is a uniform scaling, an example of a Homothetic transformation that increases distances, areas and volumes.
- NounPLenlargementsSUF-ement
- The act of making something larger.
- Rick was ashamed about the size of his penis, so he had a penis enlargement.
- (figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
- ‘’’1874 Thomas Hardy, ‘’Far From the Madding Crowd’’, 2005 Barnes & Noble Classics publication of 1912 Wessex edition, p337: Bathsheba underwent the enlargement of her husband's absence from hours to days with a slight feeling of surprise, and a slight feeling of relief; yet neither sensation rose at any time far above the level commonly designated as indifference.
- An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
- The act of making something larger.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Self-focus, self-preoccupation, and the like do not automatically spell an enlargement of one's general self-knowledge.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Recession and rising unemployment have put paid to most thoughts of further EU enlargement.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of enlargement in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns
- en enlargements
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "enlargement" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.