Longitudinal vs. Axial — What's the Difference?

Of or relating to longitude or length

Relating to or forming an axis

Concerned with the development of persons or groups over time

Relating to, characterized by, or forming an axis.

Placed or running lengthwise

Located on, around, or in the direction of an axis.

Relating to length, or to longitude.

Relating to, resembling, or situated on an axis

Running in the direction of the long axis of a body.

(anatomy) Belonging to the axis of the body, or to the axis of any appendage or organ

Forward and/or backward, relative to some defined direction.

(botany) In the same direction as the axis, parallel to the axis.

Sampling data over time rather than merely once.

(chemistry) oriented close to the axis running through the centre of a cyclohexane ring, as opposed to equatorial. See w:Axial bond.

Any longitudinal piece, as in shipbuilding etc.

(ornithology) A flight feather that appears between the primaries and secondaries on some birds.

(rail transport) A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.

(dentistry) A plane parallel to the surface of a tooth.

Of or pertaining to longitude or length; as, longitudinal distance.

Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.

Extending in length; in the direction of the length; running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse; as, the longitudinal diameter of a body.

Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones.

A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.

Of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation

Of or relating to lines of longitude;

Relating to or attached to the axis;

Running lengthwise;

Situated on or along or in the direction of an axis

Over an extended time;