elongation
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Aug. 14 through 16: Venus reaches its greatest eastern elongation and glows low in the western sky after sunset.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
"Definitely the elongation of the vowels like 'cheeeeese'!"
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024
That gradual elongation happened because workers were moving farther from their workplaces, often forced to the margins by the rising cost of housing in job centers.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2023
The research team found that SCFAs such as acetic, propionic, butyric and valeric acids induce dendrite elongation by inhibiting an enzyme called histone deacetylase.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023
With the elongation of the body, the dorsal shield begins to project posteriorly as a shell-fold, which may increase in size to envelop more or less of the body or may disappear altogether.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing elongation
Mechanical Engineering
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Civil Engineering
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