Usually means: Making something longer in dimension.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word elongating:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. elongating: Merriam-Webster
  2. elongating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. elongating: Vocabulary.com
  4. elongating: Wordnik
  5. elongating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. elongating: Wiktionary
  7. Elongating, elongating: Dictionary.com
  8. Elongating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Elongating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. elongating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. elongating: FreeDictionary.org
  12. elongating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elongating: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elongating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See elongate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (elongate)

adjective:  Elongated, extended, lengthened; (especially biology) having a long and slender form.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To make (something) long or longer, for example, by pulling or stretching; to make (something) elongated; to extend, to lengthen.
verb:  (obsolete) Followed by from: to move to or place (something) at a distance from another thing; to remove.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To become long or longer, for example, by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated.
verb:  (botany) Of a plant part: to grow long; also, to have a long and slender or tapering form.
verb:  (obsolete) Followed by from: to be at a distance, or move away, from a thing; to depart; (specifically, astronomy) of a planet, star, or other astronomical object: to appear to recede from the sun or a fixed point in the celestial sphere.
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