adjective. undefined

adjective. Of or relating to longitude or length.

adjective. Concerned with the development of persons or groups over time.

adjective. Placed or running lengthwise.

noun. In iron ship-building, one of the fore-and-aft members in the framing of a cellular double bottom, consisting of a plate, an inner angle-bar by which it is connected to the inner bottom, and an outer angle-bar by which it is connected to the outside plating. In warships, the plate and inner bar are usually continuous; in merchant vessels the plate and both bars are more frequently worked inter-costally between the frames. Also called longitudinal frame. See cuts under double bottom.

Of or pertaining to longitude or length; relating to or consisting in length: as, longitudinal distance.

In the direction of the length; running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse or across: as, the longitudinal diameter of a body.

In botany, in the direction of growth.

In zoology, extended in the long axis of the body, as any articulate animal; articulated.

noun. A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.

adjective. Of or pertaining to longitude or length.

adjective. Extending in length; in the direction of the length; running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse.

adjective. Relating to length, or to longitude.

adjective. Running in the direction of the long axis of a body.

adjective. Forward and/or backward, relative to some defined direction.

adjective. Sampling data over time rather than merely once.

noun. Any longitudinal piece, as in shipbuilding etc.

adjective. of or relating to lines of longitude

adjective. running lengthwise

adjective. over an extended time

""In any long-term longitudinal survey of budgetary costs, I think it would be imprudent and misleading not to adjust for the effects of inflation," says Stephen I. Schwartz, editor of the journal Nonproliferation Review and director of a 1998 study by the left-leaning Brookings Institution on long-range nuclear-weapons spending in the U.S."

cross-sectional  transverse  

longitudinal aberration  longitudinal elasticity  longitudinal sinus  longitudinal strain  longitudinal veins  

lengthways  lengthwise  long  

attitudinal  latitudinal  

alternate  angular  axial  circular  concentric  

endwise  lengthwise