Longitudinal vs Elongated - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between longitudinal and elongated

is that longitudinal is relating to length, or to longitude while elongated is extensive in length.

is any longitudinal piece, as in shipbuilding etc.

(elongate).

(wikipedia longitudinal) (-)

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.

* (relating to length) transverse * (sampling data over time) cross-sectional

(en noun)

Any longitudinal piece, as in shipbuilding etc.

# A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.

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(en adjective)

extensive in length

stretched

(of a polyhedron) Having been modified by placing an prism in the middle of the polyhedron.

(head)

(elongate)

*gyroelongated