adjective
- Running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing.
- usage: "the lengthwise dimension"
- synonyms: lengthways
adverb
- In the direction of the length.
- usage: "He cut the paper lengthwise"
- synonyms: lengthways, longwise, longways, longitudinally
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