protraction

The act of protracting.

The state of being protracted.

The irregular lengthening of a normally short syllable.

The act of drawing out or prolonging; the act of delaying: as, the protraction of a debate.

In surveying: The act of plotting or laying down on paper the dimensions of a field, etc.

That which is protracted or plotted on paper.

The action of a protractor in sense .

In ancient prosody, the treatment as metrically long of a syllable usually measured as a short: opposed to correption.

A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay.