Usually means: Stretching or lengthening of material.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. elongation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. elongation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elongation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. elongation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. elongation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Elongation, elongation: Wordnik
  7. elongation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. elongation: Wiktionary
  9. elongation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. elongation: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. elongation: Dictionary.com
  12. elongation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Elongation (astronomy), Elongation (geometry), Elongation (materials science), Elongation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Elongation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. elongation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. elongation: Rhymezone
  17. Elongation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. elongation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. elongation: Free Dictionary
  20. elongation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. elongation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. elongation: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elongation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. elongation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Elongation: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Elongation: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. ELONGATION: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  3. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Glass Association Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Paper Making (No longer online)
  6. ELONGATION: Industry Terms for Fiberglass
  7. Metal Terminology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (elongation)

noun:  The act of lengthening.
noun:  The state of being lengthened.
noun:  That which lengthens out; a continuation.
noun:  The ratio of the extension of a material to the length of the material prior to stretching.
noun:  A removal to a distance; a withdrawal; a being at a distance; a distance.
noun:  (astronomy) The angular distance of a planet from the sun.

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