elongation

IPA: iɫɔŋgˈeɪʃʌn

The act of lengthening
the state of being lengthened
That which lengthens out; continuation.
The ratio of the extension of a material to the length of the material prior to stretching.
Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance.
(astronomy) The angular distance of a planet from the sun

Examples of "elongation" in Sentences

Nucleosomes inhibit the initiation of transcription but allow chain elongation with the displacement of histones.
This figure is known as the elongation at fracture, or briefly, the "elongation," and is generally taken to be a measure of ductility.
Guo S, Yamaguchi Y, Schilbach S, Wada T, Goddard A, et al. (2000) A regulator of transcriptional elongation, which is required for vertebrate neuronal development.
Elongated slots are recesses in workpieces which are made with a limited length in the form of the "elongation" of a workpiece bore hole by milling into a given direction.
Genes in the universal ancestor that were already homologs of each other (the paralogs such as elongation factors EF-1and EF-G used to root the universal tree, for instance [37]) of course complicate this view.
One interesting example is axis elongation, which is just what it sounds like: the embryo stretches out until it clearly has a long axis, then continues to elongate to form something with a head and a tail and everything in between.
What would happen, I reasoned, is that one or more of them would be added to the oligonucleotide by the polymerase prior to the termination of chain elongation by addition of the dideoxynucleoside triphosphate, and it could easily be the wrong dideoxynucleoside triphosphate and it surely would result in an extension product that would be the wrong size, and the results would be spurious.