Dilatation

An obsolete term used to denote special birational transformations. The modern term is monoidal transformation.

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There are, however, also several non-obsolete meanings of the term, such as the dilatation (dilatation coefficient) $k(f,a)$ of a quasi-conformal mapping and the theory of (unitary) dilatations in operator theory, cf. Contraction and Contraction semi-group; cf. also Spectral set.