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Definition of: protraction
(prō·trak′shən) noun
1. The act of drawing out or lengthening in time; the act of delaying the termination of anything.
2. In prosody, the irregular lengthening of a syllable ordinarily short.
3. The making of a surveyor's plot on paper.
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