LENGTHENING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lengthening mean? 

• LENGTHENING (noun)
  The noun LENGTHENING has 1 sense:

1. the act of prolonging something

  Familiarity information: LENGTHENING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LENGTHENING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of prolonging something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

lengthening; perpetuation; prolongation; protraction

Context example:

there was an indefinite prolongation of the peace talks

Hypernyms ("lengthening" is a kind of...):

continuance; continuation (the act of continuing an activity without interruption)

 Context examples 

A disorder characterized by a dysrhythmia with a progressively lengthening PR interval prior to the blocking of an atrial impulse.

(AV Block Second Degree Mobitz Type I, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

An electrocardiographic finding of intermittent failure of atrial electrical impulse conduction to the ventricles, characterized by a progressively lengthening PR interval prior to the block of an atrial impulse.

(AV Block Second Degree Mobitz Type I by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

This gene plays a role in DNA unwinding and recombination-mediated telomere lengthening.

(BLM Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This process may be involved in lengthening telomeres and in resolving breaks induced by radiation, mutagenic chemicals and collapsed replication forks.

(Mitotic Recombination, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by an electrocardiographic finding of intermittent failure of atrial electrical impulse conduction to the ventricles, characterized by a progressively lengthening PR interval prior to the block of an atrial impulse.

(AV Block Second Degree Mobitz Type I, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Telomeres are the ends of chromosomes, the shortening of which can cause cell ageing and the lengthening of which can cause cancer.

(Long-term consumption of sunflower and fish oils damages the liver, University of Granada)

As spring came on, a new set of amusements became the fashion, and the lengthening days gave long afternoons for work and play of all sorts.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He found that this was no light task, and at wheel or lookout he steadily went over and over his lengthening list of pronunciations and definitions, while he invariably memorized himself to sleep.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Traddles, with a perceptible lengthening of his face, explained that he had not been able to approach this subject; that it had shared the fate of Mr. Micawber's liabilities, in not being comprehended in the terms he had made; that we were no longer of any authority with Uriah Heep; and that if he could do us, or any of us, any injury or annoyance, no doubt he would.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was a strange and frightful spectacle—the small, bunk-lined space, the floor and walls leaping and lurching, the dim light, the swaying shadows lengthening and fore-shortening monstrously, the thick air heavy with smoke and the smell of bodies and iodoform, and the inflamed faces of the men—half-men, I should call them.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)