elongation
elongate
adjective
 biology specializeduk /ˈiː.lɒŋ.ɡeɪt/ us /ɪˈlɑːŋ.ɡeɪt/
having a shape that is much longer than it is wide: 细长的
Acanthoclinus are elongate fishes.棘鮗属鱼的体型都十分细长。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Narrow and thin
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attenuated
attenuation
narrow
narrowness
railroad
tapering
thin
thinly
ultra-thin
wafer-thin
wasp waist

Examples of elongate

elongate
Each lateral canal consists of an elongated cell embedded in the cytoplasm of the lateral hypodermal cord.
Clearly, the turbulent cells are almost isotropic and not particularly elongated in the radial direction.
The fastest growing wave appears to be a zero-frequency mode, elongated perpendicularly to the plasma inhomogeneity.
Other possible mechanisms of reconnection may be via magnetic streamers [17], which are radially elongated magnetic structures.
The winter thermal benefits of elongated atria are thus offset by additional cooling requirements.
A-type horizontal cells of the superior edge of the linear visual streak of the rabbit retina have oriented, elongated dendritic trees.
The paraspermatids were similar to parasperm in their retroflux shape and elongated nuclei, although, in the culture, those with fused nucleus were not observed.
However, the approximate elliptical vortices become elongated to an arbitrarily great extent in this limit, whereas the actual solutions do not.
However, tomato plants had highly elongated and complex canopies that could not be easily measured from either a nadir or horizontal orientation.
However, the surface dispersion properties of the dust-acoustic wave in a dusty plasma containing elongated and rotating dust grains have not been investigated as yet.
I n general, large amplitudes are obtained for structures highly elongated in the streamwise direction.
Most tubers from cultivated yams are elongated cylinders rounded at both ends.
The overhang shape is regular, elongated, and conical or barrel-shaped with a flattened or slightly convex end.
By making the scattering volume highly elongated one could, in principle, determine each velocity gradient component separately.
When the sheet is sufficiently elongated, the profile of the free surface shows an upward bulge near the leading edge.
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