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Noun lengthening has 1 sense

• lengthening(n = noun.act) perpetuation, prolongation, protraction - the act of prolonging something; "there was an indefinite prolongation of the peace talks"
is a kind of continuance, continuation

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lengthening

continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, crescendoing, crescent, elongation, endurance, expanding, extension, growing, increasing, incremental, intensifying, lingering, maintenance, multiplying, on the increase, perpetuation, perseverance, persistence, procrastination, production, progress, progression, proliferating, prolongation, protraction, pursuance, repetition, run, snowballing, spreading, staying power, straight course, strain, stretch, stretching, stringing out, sustained action, sustenance, swelling, tension, tightening, uninterrupted course, unremittingness, waxing, way

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Length

N length, longitude, span, mileage, distance, line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius, lengthening, prolongation, production, protraction, tension, tensure, extension, line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league, chain, link, arpent, handbreadth, jornada, kos, vara, astronomical unit, AU, light- year, parsec, nanometer, nm, micron, micrometer, millimicron, millimeter, mm, centimeter, cm, meter, kilometer, km, pedometer, perambulator, scale, long, longsome, lengthy, wiredrawn, outstretched, lengthened, sesquipedalian, interminable, no end of, macrocolous, linear, lineal, longitudinal, oblong, as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow, unshortened &c (shorten), lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong, along, tandem, in a line, in perspective, from end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, from top to toe, fore and aft.

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