elongation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the quality of being elongated
  2. noun an addition to the length of something
    extension.
  3. noun the act of lengthening something

WordNet

E`lon*ga"tion noun
Etymology
LL. elongatio: cf. F. élongation.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913