(adj) having notably more length than width; being long and slender, Syn.elongated, Example: an elongate tail tapering to a point; the old man's gaunt and elongated frame
v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Elongated p. pr. & vb. n. Elongating. ] [ LL. elongatus, p. p. of elongare to remove, to prolong; e + L. longus long. See Long, a., and cf. Eloign. ] 1. To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. To remove further off. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ LL. elongatio: cf. F. élongation. ] 1. The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension. “Elongation of the fibers.” Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. That which lengthens out; continuation. [ 1913 Webster ]
May not the mountains of Westmoreland and Cumberland be considered as elongations of these two chains? Pinkerton. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
4. (Astron.) The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury. [ 1913 Webster ]
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