The Collaborative International Dictionary
Longitudinally \Lon`gi*tu"di*nal*ly\, adv. In the direction of length.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 Along lines of longitude, in the direction from pole to pole, meridianally. 2 (context science and social science English) By sample data over time rather than merely once.
WordNet
adv. across time; "We studied the development of the children longitudinally"
in the direction of the length; "He cut the paper lengthwise" [syn: lengthways, lengthwise, longwise, longways]
with respect to longitude; "longitudinally measured"
Usage examples of "longitudinally".
One of the disks is movable longitudinally on its shaft, and with the brushes clear of the serrations the clutch is free.
Only once did I perceive a human being, and that was at the intersection of our crossroad with the wide, white turnpike which cuts each cultivated district longitudinally at its exact center.
In the inner layer the fibers encircle the canal, but in the outer layer they run longitudinally, or lengthwise, along the canal.
Brood galleries are then made longitudinally just under the bark of the trunk by the female, and a row of eggs is placed along either side of this brood chamber.
The design, inclosed by a circle, represents a cross such as would be formed by two rectangular tablets or slips, slit longitudinally and interlaced at right-angles to each other.
The river and the trolley run side by side the whole charming way, and, as you near Elmira, you come upon latticed barns that waft you the fragrance of drying tobacco-leaves, suspended longitudinally for the wind to play through.
The crown was bared sometimes longitudinally, sometimes latitudinally, from the nape of the neck to the forehead, or from one ear to another.
The island of Timor is larger than in the Dauphin chart, and the island of Flores is placed latitudinally, as it ought to be, whereas in the Dauphin chart it is placed longitudinally.
Gasoline Alley running longitudinally down the centerline, on top of the machinery spaces.
The petiole of a leaf was fixed to a cork support, close to the point whence the four pinnae diverge, with a short fine filament cemented longitudinally to one of the two terminal pinnae, and a graduated semicircle was placed close beneath it.
On a Sunday afternoon, when the shutters are down and the proletariat possesses the street in a kind of dumb torpor, there are certain thoroughfares which remind one of nothing less than a big chancrous cock laid open longitudinally.
When sliced longitudinally they have been put on the market as American Gentian, and when fresh, their properties closely resemble Gentiana Lutea, the European Yellow Gentian.
External surface, pale greyish brown to dark brown, nearly smooth, more or less scaly and roughened, with numerous warts or lenticels, the scales soft with sometimes a brownish-black fungus on them, inner side whity brown and longitudinally striate.
We witnessed the effects of injuring longitudinally one side of the cotyledons of Avena and Phalaris.
It was a simple though lengthy task to saw through the timbers next the keel and cut through breast-hook and transome, with the result that the cutter was longitudinally divided into two parts.