Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a longitudinal manner; in the direction of length.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In the direction of length.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb Along lines of
longitude , in the direction from pole to pole,meridianally . - adverb By
sampling data overtime rather than merelyonce .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with respect to longitude
- adverb across time
- adverb in the direction of the length
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Sportsman 850 engine has been mounted longitudinally to allow the XP to be as narrow as possible at both the knees and ankles.
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Its longitudinally mounted 475cc engine gives it enough grunt to work or play.
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I experimentally touched the barrel at one point, expecting it to be very hot to the touch (after shooting my healthy handloads), and noted that the barrel was only quite warm, and was perfectly safe to continue handling and firing, as opposed to being too hot to touch and plagued with heat mirages, which would have been the case with all of my other .257 non-fluted or longitudinally-fluted rifles shooting similarly healthy handloads.
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The spiral fluting on E.R. Shaw's barrel not only appears to cut down on weight, but also appears to significantly slow the rate of barrel temperature rise (as compared to non-fluted barrels or even longitudinally-fluted barrels) while I was busily putting rounds downrange.
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The spiral fluting on E.R. Shaw's barrel not only appears to cut down on weight, but also appears to significantly slow the rate of barrel temperature rise (as compared to non-fluted barrels or even longitudinally-fluted barrels) while I was busily putting rounds downrange.
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Fellows also identify Patients during their first year that they can follow longitudinally through these clinics.
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The pledges have become longitudinally rampant, running all over the map from gay marriage to abortion to Shariah law to the teaching of intelligent design.
Will Durst: The GOP Pledge Drive Will Durst 2011
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The pledges have become longitudinally rampant, running all over the map from gay marriage to abortion to Shariah law to the teaching of intelligent design.
Will Durst: The GOP Pledge Drive Will Durst 2011
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The pledges have become longitudinally rampant, running all over the map from gay marriage to abortion to Shariah law to the teaching of intelligent design.
Will Durst: The GOP Pledge Drive Will Durst 2011
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I experimentally touched the barrel at one point, expecting it to be very hot to the touch (after shooting my healthy handloads), and noted that the barrel was only quite warm, and was perfectly safe to continue handling and firing, as opposed to being too hot to touch and plagued with heat mirages, which would have been the case with all of my other .257 non-fluted or longitudinally-fluted rifles shooting similarly healthy handloads.
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