Definition of "longitudinally" []

• Along lines of longitude, in the direction from pole to pole, meridianally. (adverb)
• By sampling data over time rather than merely once. (adverb)

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• "The pledges have become longitudinally rampant, running all over the map from gay marriage to abortion to Shariah law to the teaching of intelligent design."
• "Fellows also identify Patients during their first year that they can follow longitudinally through these clinics."
• "I experimentally touched the barrel at one point, expecting it to be very hot to the touch (after shooting my healthy handloads), and noted that the barrel was only quite warm, and was perfectly safe to continue handling and firing, as opposed to being too hot to touch and plagued with heat mirages, which would have been the case with all of my other .257 non-fluted or longitudinally-fluted rifles shooting similarly healthy handloads."