Having the quality of or tending to cause dilation; relating to expansion or widening.
From Latin dilatare + -ive suffix meaning 'having the quality of.' Creates an adjective describing things that cause or relate to dilation.
In physics, 'dilative' stress is what happens when you pull on something, trying to make it bigger—the opposite of compressive stress that squeezes it smaller.
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