Synonym: Axis, axis of rotation, axis vertebra, bloc. Similar words: taxi stand, existing, preexist, maximum, taxidermy, dyspraxia. Meaning: ['æksɪs] n. 1. a straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions 2. the center around which something rotates 3. the main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged 4. in World War II the alliance of Germany and Italy in 1936 which later included Japan and other nations 5. a group of countries in special alliance 6. the 2nd cervical vertebra; serves as a pivot for turning the head.
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(61) The world had completed one more turn on its axis.
(62) Distance a locates the focus of the parabola on the x axis.
(63) Whereas the extremities of a parabola become parallel to its major axis, the asymptotes of a hyperbola cross one another.
(64) Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. Thomas Carlyle
(65) In the prognathous head the long axis is horizontal, or slightly inclined ventrally, while the mouthparts are anterior in position.
(66) The vertical axis is a measure of the probability of acceptance of an item by the user.
(67) The height of each bar is read from the vertical axis.
(68) Each sighting results in the discovery of either a female axis or white-tailed deer.
(69) With no damping, the poles simply lie on the imaginary axis.
(70) A leader with a rating of nine on the vertical axis has maximum concern for people.
(71) Now imagine the whole diagram being rotated out of the page about an axis that connects the centres of the two circles.
(72) We spin on an axis, or tilt, of about 23. 5 degrees from the sun.
(73) We plot pre-tax income on the horizontal axis and post-tax income on the vertical axis.
(74) Equator: The plane through the middle of the cell, at right angles to the main axis of the spindle.
(75) By the end of 1942, the great year of success for the Axis, things were starting to change dramatically.
(76) Open back designs, like most combos, sound slightly brighter off axis but suffer from lack of bass.
(77) The orientation of the long axis of an elliptical borehole is displayed when the break-out criteria are satisfied.
(78) McGann, it seems,[http://sentencedict.com/axis.html] is opting for the financial arrangement / power axis model of marriage.
(79) On travelling along the x axis to Quito a traveller would find that Libreville lies in the y direction.
(80) The real wage is measured along the vertical axis and labour services are measured along the horizontal axis.
(81) Each of the spheres revolves once a day about the axis of the heavens with the earth as its center.
(82) With figure 4.2, however, the cycle is seen as going diagonally across the matrix rather than running along one axis.
(83) The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people. Bill Maher
(84) The horizontal axis has the most frequently preserved part of the bone, namely the distal humerus and proximal femur.
(85) I decided to use the directionality and linearity of the central axis.
(86) We have seen that it turns a state of arbitrary polarisation into one polarised perpendicular to the crystal's optical axis.
(87) The central axis of the Space Station, with its docking arms extended, was now slowly swimming toward them.
(88) The truth, when it is revealed, will rock this world upon its axis.
(89) It is rather as though there is a central axis, around which the gemstone of beauty is formed.
(90) Graphics are generally more readable when explanatory variables are shown along a horizontal axis and outcome variables vertically.