👉 A dilation is a transformation in which a figure is stretched or compressed along one axis and then shrunk or elongated along another. This process involves stretching the object by a factor of k, where k is a scale factor, and shrinking it back to its original size using the same scale factor. For example, consider a rectangular prism that has been stretched horizontally by a factor of 2 and then shrunk vertically by a factor of -3. The resulting shape would be a cylinder with a height
