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LONGEST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

For the most time

Example:

she stayed longest

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

long (primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified)

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 Context examples: 

I wore away the longest part of many wild sad nights, in those rides; reviving, as I went, the thoughts that had occupied me in my long absence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The longest day never played White Fang out.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The most recently recorded sum of longest diameters minus the lowest sum of longest diameters previously recorded divided by the lowest sum of longest diameters previously recorded, multiplied by 100.

(Percent Change From Nadir in Sum of Longest Diameter, NCI Thesaurus)

Sir Thomas, poor Sir Thomas, a parent, and conscious of errors in his own conduct as a parent, was the longest to suffer.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

NOTE(S): This is the longest measurement or largest value if only one measurement is captured.

(Performed Lesion Description X Dimension, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

“The best rose has ever the longest thorns,” said he.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It should be the longest bench in the world, Sherry, answered the Prince, for a good many of his subjects will want seats on it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Its wavelengths are generally greater than those of far ultraviolet radiation and range through the longest radio waves.

(Nonionizing Radiation, NCI Thesaurus)

The most recently recorded sum of longest diameters minus the baseline sum of longest diameters divided by the baseline sum of longest diameters, multiplied by 100.

(Percent Change From Baseline in Sum of Longest Diameter, NCI Thesaurus)

A section created by a plane cutting a solid perpendicular to its longest axis.

(Cross-section, NCI Thesaurus)