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/ˌilɔŋgˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Elongation n.

The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension. "Elongation of the fibers."

That which lengthens out; continuation. "May not the mountains of Westmoreland and Cumberland be considered as elongations of these two chains?"

Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance. "The distant points in the celestial expanse appear to the eye in so small a degree of elongation from one another, as bears no proportion to what is real."

(Astron.) The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— The Sexual Life of the Child • Albert Moll

... phenomenon which appears to have particularly arrested Newton's attention, was the elongation which the luminous spot underwent in consequence of its passage through the prism. When the prism was absent the spot was nearly circular, but when the prism was introduced the spot was about five times as long as it was broad. To ascertain ...

— Great Astronomers • R. S. Ball

... normally flat and elongated transversely to the line of flight, in combination with means for imparting to said aeroplane a helicoidal warp around an axis transverse to the line of flight and extending centrally along the body aeroplane in the direction of the elongation ...

— A History of Aeronautics • E. Charles Vivian

... in with this arrangement. Having studied navigation while a boy at school, which is somewhat similar to surveying, it did not take me a great while to learn to adjust the instrument, or to take the variations at night, on the elongation of the north star. I will here remark in passing, that Mr. Loring soon became so enfeebled that he returned to San Francisco, where ...

— Christopher Carson • John S. C. Abbott