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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Elongation \E'lon*ga"tion\ (?; 277), noun [LL. elongatio: cf. F. ['e]longation.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
elongation
noun
1: the quality of being elongated
2: an addition to the length of something [syn: {extension}]
3: the act of lengthening something
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