noun.
The act of drawing out or prolonging; the act of delaying: as, the protraction of a debate.
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In surveying: The act of plotting or laying down on paper the dimensions of a field, etc.
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That which is protracted or plotted on paper.
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The action of a protractor in sense .
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In ancient prosody, the treatment as metrically long of a syllable usually measured as a short: opposed to correption.