prolonging

English

Verb

prolonging

1. present participle and gerund of prolong

Noun

prolonging (plural prolongings)

1. prolongation
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     the gradual prolongings of the whale's visible jets