How to pronounce “protract”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.
• To use a protractor.
• (surveying) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
• To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer.
• To extend; to protrude.

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