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Panel vs Longitudinal - What's the difference?

panel | longitudinal |

As nouns the difference between panel and longitudinal

is that panel is panel while longitudinal is any longitudinal piece, as in shipbuilding etc.

As an adjective longitudinal is

relating to length, or to longitude.

panel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.; (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
    • Behind the picture was a panel on the wall.
  • A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
    • Today's panel includes John Smith.
  • An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
    • The last panel of a comic strip usually contains a punchline.
  • (legal) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff; hence, more generally, the whole jury.
    • (Blackstone)
  • (legal, Scotland) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
    • (Burrill)
  • (obsolete) A piece of cloth serving as a saddle.
  • A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
  • (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
    • the panel of a door
  • (masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
    • (Gwilt)
  • (masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
  • (mining) A heap of dressed ore.
  • (mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
  • (dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
  • A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.

    • Derived terms

    * panellist (UK), panelist (US) * panelled (UK), paneled (US) * panelling (UK), paneling (US)

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    Verb

  • to fit with panels

    • See also

    * instrument panel, control panel * panel beater * panel game * panel van

    Anagrams

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    longitudinal

    English

    Adjective

    (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.

    • Antonyms

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

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any longitudinal piece, as in shipbuilding etc.
  • # A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.
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