Meanings
comparative more endwise · superlative most endwise
- Towards the ends.
comparative more endwise · superlative most endwise
- On-end; upright; pertaining or relating to the end.
But the same slender member in bending and not in endwise compression can stand an extreme fiber stress several ...
1914, Engineering news1 more example
... 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.
1855, The Repertory of patent inventions
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbon end or upright
adverbin or toward the direction of the ends; lengthwise
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ent-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂entíos
- Proto-Germanic*andijaz
- Proto-West Germanic*andī
- Old Englishende
- Middle Englishende
- Englishend
- Proto-Indo-European*weyd-
- Proto-Indo-European*wéydos
- Proto-Indo-European*weyd-s-ós
- Proto-Germanic*wīsaz
- Englishendwise
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Cite this entry
endwise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endwise
“endwise.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endwise. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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