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dilation

basic operation in mathematical morphology
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dilation

Summary

dilation is a morphological operation[1]. dilation draws 89 Wikipedia views per month (morphological_operation category, ranking #2 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • dilation's instance of is recorded as morphological operation[3].
  • dilation's opposite of is recorded as erosion[4].
  • dilation's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04czdz7[5].
  • dilation's defining formula is recorded as A \oplus B = \bigcup_{b\in B} A_b[6].
  • dilation's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[7].
  • dilation's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 22479172[8].
  • dilation's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/11899[9].

Why It Matters

dilation draws 89 Wikipedia views per month (morphological_operation category, ranking #2 of 4).[2] dilation has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). dilation. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/dilation
MLA “dilation.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/dilation.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_dilation_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{dilation}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/dilation}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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