To grow in length – cannabis stretches from three inches (or 7.5 centimeters) to a foot (or 0.3 meters) when flowering is induced.
Elongation may refer to:
- Elongation (astronomy)
- Elongation (geometry)
- Elongation (plasma physics)
- Part of transcription of DNA into RNA of all types, including mRNA, tRNA, rRNA, etc.
- Part of translation (biology) of mRNA into proteins
- Elongated organisms
- Elongation (mechanics), linear deformation
English
Etymology
From Late Middle English elongat, elongate (“kept away; different or remote in nature”, adjective), borrowed from Late Latin ēlongātus (“having been stretched out, elongated; prolonged, protracted; having been kept aloof, removed”) + Middle English -at (suffix forming participles). Ēlongātus is the perfect passive participle of elongō (“to prolong, protract; to keep aloof, remove; to depart, withdraw”), from Latin ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’))
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