AXIS
\ˈaksɪs], \ˈaksɪs], \ˈa_k_s_ɪ_s]\
Definitions of AXIS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged
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the center around which something rotates
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the 2nd cervical vertebra; serves as a pivot for turning the head
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a straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions
By Princeton University
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the main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged
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the center around which something rotates
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the 2nd cervical vertebra; serves as a pivot for turning the head
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a straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).
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A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged.
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A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center.
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The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body.
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The second vertebra of the neck, or vertebra dentata.
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Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon.
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One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded.
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The primary or secondary central line of any design.
By Oddity Software
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A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged.
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A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center.
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The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body.
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The second vertebra of the neck, or vertebra dentata.
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Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon.
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One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded.
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The primary or secondary central line of any design.
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The spotted deer (Cervus axis or maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).
By Noah Webster.
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The motionless straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, upon which such a body revolves, or is supposed to revolve; as, the earth turns on its axis.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The main stem or central cylinder; the fundamentally central line of a structure; the second cervical vertebra.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A right line which passes through the centre of a body.
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Is also the second vertebra of the neck, Axon, Epistropheus, Epistrophus, Maschalister: Vertebra Dentata, (F.) Essieu. So called, because it forms a kind of axis on which the head moves.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A fixed line, actual or imaginary, about which anything revolves.
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The central part of anything; hence a line occupying the center of anything or about which other parts are symmetrically disposed.
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Any particular diameter of an object, especially its long diameter.
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In optics, the name given to the lines passing through the optical center.
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The second cervical vertebra, so-called because. the atlas and the cranium turn upon its odontoid process as upon a pivot.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] The straight line on which a body revolves, or may be supposed to revolve ;- the second vertebra of the neck ;- the central part of a plant, round which the others are disposed ;- a medial line between corresponding parts. Wheel and axis, one of the six mechanical powers.
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- [Greek] Structurally adapted to an aquatic environment, as organs of water plants.