Elongation

E`lon`ga´tion

n.	1.	The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension.
	2.	That which lengthens out; continuation. May not the mountains of Westmoreland and Cumberland be considered as elongations of these two chains? - Pinkerton.
	3.	Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance. The distant points in the celestial expanse appear to the eye in so small a degree of elongation from one another, as bears no proportion to what is real. - Glanvill.
	4.	(Astron.) The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury.

Noun	1.	elongation - the quality of being elongated
	2.	elongation - an addition to the length of something Synonyms: extension
	3.	elongation - the act of lengthening something