Longitudinal vs Axial - What's the difference?
longitudinal | axial |
Relating to length, or to longitude.
Running in the direction of the long axis of a body.
Forward and/or backward, relative to some defined direction.
(science, and, social science, of a study) Sampling data over time rather than merely once.
Any longitudinal piece, as in shipbuilding etc.
# A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.
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Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.
Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones.
(botany) in the same direction as the axis, parallel to the axis.
As adjectives the difference between longitudinal and axial
is that longitudinal is relating to length, or to longitude while axial is of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.As a noun longitudinal
is any longitudinal piece, as in shipbuilding etc.longitudinal
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(wikipedia longitudinal) (-)Antonyms
* (relating to length) transverse * (sampling data over time) cross-sectionalNoun
(en noun)axial
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(en adjective)- the secondary xylem usually consists of axial and radial elements