prolongation

1. 1.

   the act of prolonging something

   “there was an indefinite prolongation of the peace talks”

   Synonymsprotractionperpetuationlengthening

   Broadercontinuance
2. 2.

   amount or degree or range to which something extends

   “the wire has an extension of 50 feet”

   Synonymsextensionlengthiness

   Broaderlongness

   Narrowercoextension
3. 3.

   the consequence of being lengthened in duration

   Synonymslengthinesscontinuationprotraction

   Broaderduration

   Narrowerfermata

Other forms of prolongation

plural

prolongations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about prolongation

What does prolongation mean?

prolongation means "the act of prolonging something". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prolongation?

prolongation has 5 syllables: pro-lon-ga-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for prolongation?

Close synonyms include protraction, perpetuation, lengthening, extension, lengthiness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prolongation a common word?

prolongation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.