Thesaurus: elongation

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1. n. The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension.
2. n. That which lengthens out; continuation.
3. n. Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance.
4. n. The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury.
5. n. the quality of being elongated
6. n. an addition to the length of something
7. n. the act of lengthening something
8. 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.
9. The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, theelongation of Venus or Mercury.
10. n:100 n. the quality of being elongated n. an addition to the length of something n. the act of lengthening something