01 n. The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension.
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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.“May not the mountains of Westmoreland and Cumberland be considered as elongations of these two chains?” — Pinkerton.
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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.
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The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury.(Astron.)