Elongation may refer to:
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Elongation (astronomy)
In astronomy, a planet's elongation is the angular separation between the Sun and the planet, with Earth as the vertex (geometry), reference point.
The greatest elongation is the maximum angular separation. ephemeris, Astronomical tables and w ...
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Elongation (geometry)
In geometry, a Johnson solid, sometimes also known as a Johnson–Zalgaller solid, is a convex polyhedron whose faces are regular polygons. They are sometimes defined to exclude the uniform polyhedrons. There are ninety-two solids with such ...
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Elongation (plasma physics)
Magnetically confined fusion plasmas such as those generated in tokamaks and stellarators are characterized by a typical shape. Plasma shaping is the study of the plasma shape in such devices, and is particularly important for next step fusion d ...
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transcription of DNA into RNA of all types, including mRNA, tRNA, rRNA, etc.
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translation (biology)
In biology, translation is the process in living Cell (biology), cells in which proteins are produced using RNA molecules as templates. The generated protein is a sequence of amino acids. This sequence is determined by the sequence of nucleotide ...
of mRNA into proteins
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Elongated organisms
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Elongation (mechanics)
In physics and continuum mechanics, deformation is the change in the shape or size of an object. It has dimension of length with SI unit of metre (m). It is quantified as the residual displacement of particles in a non- rigid body, from an con ...
, linear deformation
See also
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