Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act of elongating or the condition of being elongated.
  • noun Something that elongates; an extension.
  • noun Astronomy The angular distance between two celestial bodies as seen from a third body, typically Earth.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of elongating or lengthening; the state of being elongated or lengthened.
  • noun Extension; continuation.
  • noun Distance; space which separates one thing from another.
  • noun A removing to a distance; removal; recession.
  • noun In astronomy: The angular distance of a planet from the sun, as it appears to the eye of a spectator on the earth; apparent departure of a planet from the sun in its orbit: as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury.
  • noun The angular distance of a satellite from its primary.
  • noun In surgery: A partial dislocation, occasioned by the stretching or lengthening of the ligaments.
  • noun The extension of a part beyond its natural dimensions.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension.
  • noun That which lengthens out; continuation.
  • noun Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance.
  • noun (Astron.) The angular distance of a planet from the sun.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension.
  • noun That which lengthens out; continuation.
  • noun The ratio of the extension of a material to the length of the material prior to stretching.
  • noun Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance.
  • noun The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of lengthening something
  • noun the quality of being elongated
  • noun an addition to the length of something

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Examples

  • Nucleosomes inhibit the initiation of transcription but allow chain elongation with the displacement of histones.

    Roger D. Kornberg - Autobiography 2007

  • What would happen, I reasoned, is that one or more of them would be added to the oligonucleotide by the polymerase prior to the termination of chain elongation by addition of the dideoxynucleoside triphosphate, and it could easily be the wrong dideoxynucleoside triphosphate and it surely would result in an extension product that would be the wrong size, and the results would be spurious.

    Kary B. Mullis - Nobel Lecture 1997

  • This figure is known as the elongation at fracture, or briefly, the "elongation," and is generally taken to be a measure of ductility.

    The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel 1916

  • One interesting example is axis elongation, which is just what it sounds like: the embryo stretches out until it clearly has a long axis, then continues to elongate to form something with a head and a tail and everything in between.

    Randomly growing an embryo. It can work. - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • One interesting example is axis elongation, which is just what it sounds like: the embryo stretches out until it clearly has a long axis, then continues to elongate to form something with a head and a tail and everything in between.

    The Panda's Thumb: Steve Matheson Archives 2010

  • One interesting example is axis elongation, which is just what it sounds like: the embryo stretches out until it clearly has a long axis, then continues to elongate to form something with a head and a tail and everything in between.

    The Panda's Thumb: Development Archives 2010

  • One interesting example is axis elongation, which is just what it sounds like: the embryo stretches out until it clearly has a long axis, then continues to elongate to form something with a head and a tail and everything in between.

    The Panda's Thumb: August 2010 Archives 2010

  • Guo S, Yamaguchi Y, Schilbach S, Wada T, Goddard A, et al. (2000) A regulator of transcriptional elongation, which is required for vertebrate neuronal development.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Keerthi Krishnan et al. 2008

  • Genes in the universal ancestor that were already homologs of each other (the paralogs such as elongation factors EF-1and EF-G used to root the universal tree, for instance [37]) of course complicate this view.

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • Elongated slots are recesses in workpieces which are made with a limited length in the form of the "elongation" of a workpiece bore hole by milling into a given direction.

    5. Milling of elongated slots Dieter Frank 1990

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