Protraction

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act of protracting.
  • noun. The state of being protracted.
  • noun. The irregular lengthening of a normally short syllable.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of drawing out or prolonging; the act of delaying: as, the protraction of a debate.
  • noun. In surveying: The act of plotting or laying down on paper the dimensions of a field, etc.
  • noun. That which is protracted or plotted on paper.
  • noun. The action of a protractor in sense .
  • noun. In ancient prosody, the treatment as metrically long of a syllable usually measured as a short: opposed to correption.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act or process of making a plot on paper.
  • noun. A plot on paper.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The condition of being protracted
  • noun. The act of protracting
  • noun. The lengthening of a short syllable
  • noun. An anterior movement on the horizontal plane; The forward movement of the tongue or of a limb
  • noun. The act of making a plot on paper.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of prolonging something
  • noun. the consequence of being lengthened in duration