Prolongation Synonyms

The act of making something longer or the condition of being made longer
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. protraction
  2. elongation
  3. extension
  4. lengthiness
  5. continuation
  6. perpetuation
  7. lengthening
Amount or degree or range to which something extends
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. extension
  2. lengthiness

Words Related to Prolongation

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. long
  2. shortening
  3. long-duration

Prolongation Sentence Examples

  • Paphlagonia is an ancient district of Asia Minor, situated on the Euxine Sea between Bithynia and Pontus, separated from Galatia by a prolongation to the east of the Bithynian Olympus.

  • Each tentacle is to the stem of a plant, and is repre sented with the base of attachment a glove-finger like outpush uppermost; the mouth, not actually ing of the whole wall of the seen in the drawing, is at the lower sac and contains typically extremity of the body, surrounded a prolongation of its internal by the circle of tentacles.

  • Next may be named the Ala-tau, on the prolongation of the Tian-shan, flanking the Syr on the north, and rising to 14,000 or 15,000 ft.

  • These tubes are lined by flattened epithelium and often contain blood capillaries; they communicate with the coelom and are to be regarded as prolongation of it into the thickness of the body wall.

  • The labrum and clypeus are developed as a single prolongation of the oral piece, not as a pair of appendages.

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