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Definition of Protractions
1. protraction [n] - See also: protraction
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protractions
Literary usage of Protractions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë by Charlotte Brontë, Patrick Branwell Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë (1896)
"If, to come at once to partic'lars, you'd consider to give up this here miln,
and go without further protractions straight home to where you belong, ..."
2. Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal (1847)
"... the accelerations are proportionably much less numerous than the protractions ;
must commonly they do not precede the time specified by more than five ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1846)
"The accelerations are proportionably much less numerous than the protractions;
most commonly they do not precede the term specified by more than five days. ..."
4. A System of Geometry and Trigonometry: With a Treatise on Surveying; in by Abel Flint, George Gillet (1835)
"In all protractions, if the end of the last distance falls exactly on the point
from which you began, the course also being right; the field work and ..."
5. A Rudimentary Treatise on the History, Construction and Illumination of by Alan Stevenson (1850)
"... in executing the necessary protractions, preparatory to the construction of
the grinding apparatus, at once to refer the whole of the grinding machinery ..."
6. A Rudimentary Treatise on the History, Construction and Illumination of by Alan Stevenson (1850)
"... in executing the necessary protractions, preparatory to the construction of
the grinding apparatus, at once to refer the whole of the grinding machinery ..."
7. A Rudimentary Treatise on the History, Construction and Illumination of by Alan Stevenson (1850)
"... in executing the necessary protractions, preparatory to the construction of
the grinding apparatus, at once to refer the whole of the grinding machinery ..."
8. A System of Geometry and Trigonometry, with a Treatise on Surveying, in by Abel Flint (1839)
"In all protractions, if the end of the last distance falls exactly on the point
from which you began, the course also being right, the field work and ..."