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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Longitudinal \Lon`gi*tu"di*nal\, n. A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.
Longitudinal \Lon`gi*tu"di*nal\, a. [Cf. F. longitudinal.]
Of or pertaining to longitude or length; as, longitudinal distance.
Extending in length; in the direction of the length; running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse; as, the longitudinal diameter of a body.
--Cheyne.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Relating to length, or to longitude. 2 Running in the direction of the long axis of a body. 3 Forward and/or backward, relative to some defined direction. 4 (context science and social science of a study English) sample data over time rather than merely once. n. 1 Any longitudinal piece, as in shipbuilding etc. 2 # A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to lines of longitude; "longitudinal reckoning by the navigator"
running lengthwise; "a thin longitudinal strip"; "longitudinal measurements of the hull"
over an extended time; "a longitudinal study of twins"
Wikipedia
Longitudinal is a geometric term of location which may refer to:
- Longitudinal engine, an internal combustion engine in which the crankshaft is oriented along the long axis of the vehicle, front to back
- Longitudinal mode, a particular standing wave pattern of a resonant cavity formed by waves confined in the cavity
- Longitudinal redundancy check, in telecommunication, a form of redundancy check that is applied independently to each of a parallel group of bit streams.
- Longitudinal study, a research study that involves repeated observations of the same items over long periods of time — often many decades
- Longitudinal voltage, in telecommunication, a voltage induced or appearing along the length of a transmission medium
- Longitudinal wave, a wave with oscillations or vibrations along or parallel to their direction of travel
- Longitudinal/longitudinally are also anatomical terms of location.
Usage examples of "longitudinal".
If the bricks were turned so as to show their short sides or ends in front instead of their long ones, certainly a compact wall of a whole brick thick, instead of half a brick, would be produced, and while the thickness of the wall would be double, the longitudinal bond would be shortened by one-half: a wall of any great thickness built in this manner would necessarily be composed of so many independent one-brick walls.
To produce a transverse and yet preserve a true longitudinal bond, the bricks are laid in a definite arrangement of stretchers and headers.
English bond, to preserve the transverse and yet not destroy the longitudinal bond, it is frequently necessary to use half bricks.
There are fifteen main transverse girders to each shore span, with nine longitudinal girders between each pair.
For railway bridges it commonly consists of cross girders, attached to or resting on the main girders, and longitudinal rail girders or stringers carried by the cross girders and directly supporting the sleepers and rails.
Provision is made for longitudinal expansion due to change of temperature, for distortion due to the sun acting on one side of the structure, and for the wind acting on one side of the bridge.
Elgeyo Escarpment falls to a longitudinal valley separated from Lake Baringo by the ridge of Kamasia.
The capsule does not open by an operculum but by four or six longitudinal slits, which do not reach either the base or apex.
Thus, subsequently, Java and the other islands assume in most maps a longitudinal, instead of a latitudinal, position.
Java and Sumbawa, and bear the longitudinal deformation to which we have already referred.
The zygomatic arches are greatly developed, also the bony ridges for the attachment of the muscles, especially the sagittal or great longitudinal crest on the top of the head, which is in comparison far larger than that of even the tiger, and to which are attached the enormous muscles of the cheek working the powerful jaws, which are capable of crushing the thigh-bone of a bullock.
In general it is a fulvous grey, marked or clouded with black, or with black longitudinal stripes.
Herbivora, or the vertical cutting one of the flesh-eating mammals, the rodent has a longitudinal motion given by the arrangement of the lower jaw, the condyle of which is not transverse, but parallel with the median line of the skull, and the glenoid fossa, or cavity into which it fits, and which is situated on the under side of the posterior root of the zygoma, is so open in front as to allow of a backwards and forwards sliding action.
They are met at the sides by the lateral longitudinal muscles, which blend, and their fibres run the whole length of the proboscis down to the extremity.
V-shaped cuts also revealed evenly spaced, parallel longitudinal striations, that, too, would have to be taken as evidence that shark teeth made the cuts.