elongation

Borrowed from Late Latin elongatio, elongationem.

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

elongation (countable and uncountable, plural elongations)

1. The act of lengthening.
2. The state of being lengthened.
3. That which lengthens out; a continuation.
4. The ratio of the extension of a material to the length of the material prior to stretching.
5. A removal to a distance; a withdrawal; a being at a distance; a distance.
6. (astronomy) The angular distance of a planet from the sun.

   the elongation of Venus

• elongate