Usually means: Extension or continuation over time.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. prolongation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prolongation: Merriam-Webster
  3. prolongation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prolongation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prolongation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prolongation, prolongation: Wordnik
  7. prolongation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prolongation: Wiktionary
  9. prolongation: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Prolongation, prolongation: Dictionary.com
  11. Prolongation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Prolongation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. prolongation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. prolongation: Rhymezone
  15. Prolongation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. prolongation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. prolongation: FreeDictionary.org
  18. prolongation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. prolongation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. prolongation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prolongation: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  The act of prolonging.
▸ noun:  That which has been prolonged; an extension.

Similar:
protraction, extension, perpetuation, lengthening, lengthiness, prolongment, production, elongation, extention, continuance, more...

Opposite:
shortening, abbreviation, reduction

Phrases:
Drug-induced QT prolongation, more...

Adjectives:
interval, significant, natural, indefinite, marked, further, like, slight, mere, undue, progressive

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Similar:
protraction, extension, perpetuation, lengthening, lengthiness, prolongment, production, elongation, extention, continuance, more...

Opposite:
shortening, abbreviation, reduction

Phrases:
Drug-induced QT prolongation, more...

Adjectives:
interval, significant, natural, indefinite, marked, further, like, slight, mere, undue, progressive

Colors:
    teal,     olive,     burgundy,     mauve,     charcoal, more...



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