Elongations [noun]

The common condition can get progressively worse as a person ages and that ocular elongation extends.

As the hind foot elongates the index will increase; elongation of the hind foot is interpreted as a specialization.

But they told what they knew; that Venus was past her eastern elongation, was approaching the earth.

In that case a little extra tension may be given to offset the probable elongation of the loops.

In the Blue Ridge it has undergone no greater change than a slight elongation of its particles and development of a little mica.

The deflecting power exerted by the elastic bond is also increased by its elongation.

One remarkable feature common to all the specimens is the great elongation of the shin bones relatively to the thigh bones.

The ultra-fashionable dress was an elongation of every part of the simple dress of the previous reign.

The experiment is then renewed with both A and B, but so that the thread takes the elongation ßβ.

An officer of each company marches in its rear to prevent undue elongation and straggling.