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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.
- Axis - n. - The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body.
- Stringpiece - n. - One of the longitudinal pieces, supporting the treads and rises of a flight or run of stairs.
- Gutter - v. t. - To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
- Costa - n. - One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.
- Orthostichy - n. - A longitudinal rank, or row, of leaves along a stem.
- Longitudinal - a. - Extending in length; in the direction of the length; running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse; as, the longitudinal diameter of a body.
- Ovate - a. - Having the shape of an egg, or of the longitudinal sectior of an egg, with the broader end basal.
- 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.
- Three-cornered - a. - Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three-cornered stem.
- Stringer - n. - A longitudinal sleeper.
- Longitudinal - a. - Of or pertaining to longitude or length; as, longitudinal distance.
- Sheer - n. - The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
- Scissure - n. - A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.
- 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.
- Keel - n. - A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the principal timber of the vessel, and, by means of the ribs attached on each side, supports the vessel's frame. In an iron vessel, a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a wooden ship. See Illust. of Keelson.
- Rebate - n. - A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.
- Fornix - n. - Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.
- Miliola - n. - A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.
- Torsion - n. - The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the opposite direction.
- Keeled - a. - Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back; as, a keeled leaf.
- 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.
- Rhachiglossa - n. pl. - A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append.
- 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.
- Costated - a. - Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs.
- Carina - n. - A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat.