LONGITUDINAL

longitudinal

Noun

  1. Any longitudinal piece, as in shipbuilding etc.
    1. A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.

Adjective

  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. Sampling data over time rather than merely once.


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