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Definition of Protracting
1. protract [v] - See also: protract
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protracting
Literary usage of Protracting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outline of the Method of Conducting a Trigonometrical Survey, for the by Edward Charles Frome (1873)
"protracting TRIANGULATIONS.—It is sometimes desirable to obtain an approximately
correct diagram of the triangulation, as for example when it is necessary ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1897)
"The Christian population in the interior did not realize the change, und were
easily excited by rumors circulated for the purpose of protracting the state ..."
3. Outline of the Method of Conducting a Trigonometrical Survey, for the by Edward Charles Frome (1873)
"protracting TRIANGULATIONS.—It is sometimes desirable to obtain an approximately
correct diagram of the triangulation, as for example when it is necessary ..."
4. A Treatise on Surveying: Containing the Theory and Practice : to which is by John Gummere (1817)
"... and ellipses ; also the method oj protracting a survey and finding its area
by dividing it into tri- angles and trapeziums. ..."
5. Niles' Weekly Register edited by Hezekiah Niles, Jeremiah Hughes, George Beatty (1835)
"The legislature of the state is prohibited from passing any laws retarding,
obstructing, staving, protracting or in any wise suspending the collection of ..."
6. A Text-book of Topographical Drawing by Frank Thomas Daniels (1907)
"protracting AN ANGLE by first laying down the base line to scale, ... protracting an
Angle. If extreme accuracy is not required, the angle may be laid off ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Indirect and Collateral Evidence by John Henry Gillett (1897)
"Death protracting the res gestae.—This element may possibly be a factor in
determining upon the admissibility of declarations. The receiving of an injury of ..."
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