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Glossary for Geometry
Glossary of Geometric Transformations
What Are Dilations, in Geometry?
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Dilation changes the size of figures In geometry, dilating something just means changing its size. When shapes are dilated, only their size changes—not their location, orientati…
By Zora Gilbert, Victor Wang
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