Enlargement

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.
  • Enlargement (in fiction) is a theme in fiction, especially in science fiction and fantasy.
  • An enlargement is a photographic print that is larger than the negative it is printed from, through the use of an enlarger.

Famous quotes containing the word enlargement:

    “... when I exclaim against novels, I mean when contrasted with those works which exercise the understanding and regulate the imagination.—For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers ...”
    —Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

    “We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.”
    —Anna C. Brackett (1836–1911)