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''endwise'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜Definition｜1st｜20260904120411-00-⌔
endwise - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Adverb
endwise (comparative more endwise, superlative most endwise)
- Upright, or standing on end.
- With the end towards the front or towards the observer.
- Towards the ends.
Adjective
endwise (comparative more endwise, superlative most endwise)
- On-end; upright; pertaining or relating to the end.
- ✤ … modes to the exclusion of either radial arms or any specific curve, my invention not referring to these modes, but to neutralising the endwise pressure on the axis, as more particularly stated hereinafter in my claim of invention.1
- ✤ But the same slender member in bending and not in endwise compression can stand an extreme fiber stress several…2
Etymology
From end + -wise.
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