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- Longitudinal - a. - Of or pertaining to longitude or length; as, longitudinal distance.
- Longitudinal - a. - Extending in length; in the direction of the length; running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse; as, the longitudinal diameter of a body.
- Longitudinal - n. - A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.
- Longitudinally - adv. - In the direction of length.
- Rabbet - n. - A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of any body; especially, one intended to receive another member, so as to break or cover the joint, or more easily to hold the members in place; thus, the groove cut for a panel, for a pane of glass, or for a door, is a rabbet, or rebate.
- Hogframe - n. - A trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness. Used chiefly in American river and lake steamers. Called also hogging frame, and hogback.
- Rib - n. - A longitudinal strip of metal uniting the barrels of a double-barreled gun.
- Tegmentum - n. - A covering; -- applied especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers in the upper part of the crura of the cerebrum.
- Split - n. - A crack, or longitudinal fissure.
- Whelp - n. - One of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a capstan or a windless; -- usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a windlass.
- Gutter - v. t. - To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
- Way - n. - The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves.
- Three-cornered - a. - Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three-cornered stem.
- Tenacity - n. - The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
- Binervate - a. - Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves.
- Keeled - a. - Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back; as, a keeled leaf.
- Costated - a. - Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs.
- Latticing - n. - A system of bars crossing in the middle to form braces between principal longitudinal members, as of a strut.
- Trigonal - a. - Having three angles, or corners; triangular; as, a trigonal stem, one having tree prominent longitudinal angles.
- Feather - n. - A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
- Sheer - n. - The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
- Rebate - n. - A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.
- Cylinder - n. - A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.
- Rorqual - n. - A very large North Atlantic whalebone whale (Physalus antiquorum, or Balaenoptera physalus). It has a dorsal fin, and strong longitudinal folds on the throat and belly. Called also razorback.
- Orthostichy - n. - A longitudinal rank, or row, of leaves along a stem.
- Miliola - n. - A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.
- Scissure - n. - A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.
- Stringer - n. - A longitudinal sleeper.
- Fornix - n. - Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.