ELONGATION
\ɪləŋɡˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɪləŋɡˈeɪʃən], \ɪ_l_ə_ŋ_ɡ_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of ELONGATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension.
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That which lengthens out; continuation.
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Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance.
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The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury.
By Oddity Software
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The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension.
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That which lengthens out; continuation.
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Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance.
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The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The act of elongating; the state of being elongated; distance; the distance of a planet from the sun, as it appears to the eye of a spectator on the earth; partial dislocation occasioned by the stretching of the ligaments or the extension of a part beyond its natural dimensions.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The act of lengthening; extension; continuation; departure; apparent distance of a planet from the sun.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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An incomplete luxation, in which the ligaments of an articulation are stretched and the limb lengthened, without total luxation. The word has also been used for the extension required in the reduction of fractures and luxations, and for the increased length of limb, (F.) Allongement, in diseases and dislocations of the hip-joint.
By Robley Dunglison
