Usually means: Extending forward or outward movement.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. protraction: Merriam-Webster
  2. protraction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. protraction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. protraction: Collins English Dictionary
  5. protraction: Vocabulary.com
  6. protraction: Wordnik
  7. protraction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. protraction: Wiktionary
  9. protraction: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. protraction: Dictionary.com
  11. Protraction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Protraction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. protraction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. protraction: Rhymezone
  15. Protraction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. protraction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. protraction: FreeDictionary.org
  18. protraction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. protraction: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. protraction: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. protraction: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. protraction: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Protraction: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (protraction)

noun:  (uncountable) The condition of being protracted.
noun:  (countable) The act of protracting.
noun:  (linguistics) The lengthening of a short syllable.
noun:  (anatomy) An anterior movement on the horizontal plane; The forward movement of the tongue or of a limb.
noun:  The act of making a plot on paper.

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