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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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"Elongation" Quotes from Famous Books

... her near conjunction and her maximum elongation with respect to Jupiter at that time. The Mirans knew their business though, for they started in on the IP station on Phobos. They were practiced by this time, and this IP station had only seven five-foot beams. In half an hour that station fell, and its sister station on Deimos ...

— The Ultimate Weapon • John Wood Campbell

... elongation of the mules of our frames permits us to employ but twenty-six spinners where we ...

— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon

... and Litten describe cases of spurious hermaphroditism due to elongation of the clitoris. In Litten's case a the clitoris was 3 1/2 inches long, and there was hydrocele of the processus vaginalis on both sides, making tumors in the labium on one side and the inguinal canal on the ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... was derived, by gradual elongation, that well-known under habiliment, which in Hebrew is called Ch'tonet, and in Greek and Latin by words of similar sound. [Footnote 2] In this stage of its progress, when extended to the neck and the shoulders, it ...

— Theological Essays and Other Papers v2 • Thomas de Quincey

... attributed to some fibres the power of active elongation. On this subject GLISSON says, "Impossible enim est, ut simplex fibra, sua sola actione, se secundum longitudinem distendat, nec modus quo haec fiat concipi nedum effari queat non negavero quin in distensione hac, aliqualis fibrae ...

— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various

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