The starting point for much of the action on the field is home plate, which is a five-sided slab of whitened rubber, 17 inches square with two of the corners removed so that one edge is 17 inches long, two adjacent sides are 8 1â2 inches and the remaining two sides are 12 inches and set at an angle to make a point.
Medical Dictionary. hyperalimentation. play. noun hyÂ·perÂ·alÂ·iÂ·menÂ·taÂ·tion \ËhÄ«-pÉ-Ëral-É-mÉn-ËtÄ-shÉn\. Medical Definition of hyperalimentation. : the administration of nutrients by intravenous feeding especially to patients who cannot ingest food through the digestive tract.
A dilation is a transformation that produces an image that is the same shape as the original, but is a different size. The description of a dilation includes the scale factor (constant of dilation) and the center of the dilation. The center of a dilation is a fixed point in the plane about which all points are expanded or contracted.