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 reference point. The greatest elongation of a given inferior planet occurs when this planet's position, in its orbital path around ...
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Elongation (geometry)
In geometry, a Johnson solid is a strictly convex polyhedron each face of which is a regular polygon. There is no requirement that each face must be the same polygon, or that the same polygons join around each vertex. An example of a Johnson ...
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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) of mRNA into proteins
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Elongated organisms
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Stretch ratio
In physics, deformation is the continuum mechanics transformation of a body from a ''reference'' configuration to a ''current'' configuration. A configuration is a set containing the positions of all particles of the body.
A deformation can ...
in the physics of deformation
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