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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Elongation \E`lon*ga"tion\ (?; 277), n. [LL. elongatio: cf F. ['e]longation.] 1. The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension. ``Elongation of the fibers.'' --Arbuthnot. 2. That which lengthens out continuation. May not the mountains of Westmoreland and Cumberland be considered as elongations of these two chains? --Pinkerton. 3. 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. --Glanvill. 4. (Astron.) The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as the elongation of Venus or Mercury. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: elongation n 1: the quality of being elongated 2: an addition to the length of something [syn: {extension}] 3: the act of lengthening something
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