Longitudinal in Malayalam
This is a physics term, not a general adjective: അനുദൈര്ഘ്യതരംഗം (anudairghyatharamgam) means a longitudinal wave, the kind in which the particles move along the direction of travel. You will meet it in school science textbooks and nowhere else.
അനുദൈര്ഘ്യതരംഗം (anudairghyatharamgam)
Longitudinal wave.
ശബ്ദം ഒരു അനുദൈര്ഘ്യതരംഗം ആണ്.
shabdam oru anudairghyatharamgam aanu.
Sound is a longitudinal wave.
Dictionary entry
- അനുദൈര്ഘ്യതരംഗം (anudairghyatharamgam) — Longitudinal wave.
അനുദൈര്ഘ്യതരംഗം (anudairghyatharamgam) is a technical compound ending in the word for wave, so it cannot be used on its own to describe anything else as longitudinal.
Common questions
How do you say longitudinal in Malayalam?
Not by itself with this entry. അനുദൈര്ഘ്യതരംഗം (anudairghyatharamgam) is the fixed term for a longitudinal wave in physics.
Where would a student meet this word?
In the sound and waves chapters of science textbooks, where it is contrasted with the term for a transverse wave.