elongated

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

elongated (comparative more elongated, superlative most elongated)

1. extensive in length (physical distance, or time)
   • 2025 June 8, Jonathan Jurejko, “Alcaraz stuns Sinner in extraordinary French Open final”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     But his serve instantly came under intense pressure against Alcaraz in an elongated start which included a 12-minute opening game.

2. stretched
3. (of a polyhedron) Having been modified by placing a prism in the middle of the polyhedron.

Derived terms

• elongatedly
• elongatedness
• hyperelongated
• nonelongated
• subelongated
• superelongated
• unelongated

Translations

extensive in length

• Catalan: allargat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拉長的 / 拉长的 (zh) (lācháng de), 引伸的 (zh) (yǐnshēn de)

• Danish: langstrakt
• Dutch: langgerekt (nl)
• Finnish: pitkulainen (fi), pitkänomainen (fi)
• French: élongé (fr)
• Galician: alongado
• German: verlängert (de)
• Hungarian: meghosszabbított (hu)
• Indonesian: memanjang (id)
• Ingrian: pitkulain
• Japanese: 細長い (ja) (ほそながい, hosonagai)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: langstrakt

• Ottoman Turkish: اوزون (uzun)
• Persian: طویل (fa) (tavil)
• Portuguese: alongado (pt) m
• Russian: вы́тянутый (ru) (výtjanutyj), удлинённый (ru) (udlinjónnyj), продолгова́тый (ru) (prodolgovátyj)

stretched

• Catalan: estirat (ca)
• Dutch: langwerpig (nl)
• Finnish: pidennetty (fi), venytetty (fi), pitkitetty
• Galician: alongado
• Hungarian: megnyújtott (hu)
• Indonesian: memanjang (id)
• Portuguese: alongado (pt) m, esticado (pt) m
• Russian: вы́тянутый (ru) (výtjanutyj)

Verb

elongated

1. simple past and past participle of elongate

Derived terms

• gyroelongated
• overelongated