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ELONGATED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does elongated mean?
• ELONGATED (adjective)
The adjective ELONGATED has 2 senses:
1. drawn out or made longer spatially
2. having notably more length than width; being long and slender
Familiarity information: ELONGATED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Drawn out or made longer spatially
Synonyms:
elongated; extended; lengthened; prolonged
Context example:
a prolonged black line across the page
Similar:
long (primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having notably more length than width; being long and slender
Synonyms:
elongate; elongated
Context example:
the old man's gaunt and elongated frame
Similar:
long (primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified)
Context examples
Most prominent are an elongated dark feature at the equator, informally known as the whale, and a large heart-shaped bright area measuring some 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) across on the right.
(A “Heart” from Pluto as Flyby Begins, NASA)
Elongated cells in the seminiferous tubules to which spermatids are attached during spermatogenesis.
(Murine Sertoli Cells, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
It is characterized by the presence of elongated spindle-shaped fibroblasts, collagenous stroma formation, and an infiltrative growth pattern.
(Abdominal Fibromatosis, NCI Thesaurus)
A larger, elongated bone in the extremity.
(Long Bone, NCI Thesaurus)
The Hanford pig is white with an elongated snout and has the largest heart and blood vessels of all pig breeds.
(Hanford Pig, NCI Thesaurus)
A small domestic mammal of the type Mustela putorious, with an elongated body and brown, black, white, or mixed fur.
(Ferret, NCI Thesaurus)
It appears to be a dark, reddish, highly-elongated rocky or high-metal-content object.
(ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before, ESO)
It is characterized by the presence of elongated serrated crypts and the absence of atypia or dysplasia.
(Appendix Hyperplastic Polyp, NCI Thesaurus)
The researchers note that there is evidence that Mimas' current, elongated orbit could have been even more stretched out in the past, which might have created enough tidal heating to produce an ocean.
(Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean, NASA)
It is characterized by the presence of elongated, spindle-shaped neoplastic glial cells that form storiform patterns or interlacing fascicular arrangements.
(Pituicytoma, NCI Thesaurus)
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