Definitions for Axis
Axis
ax·is
Spelling: [ak-sis]
IPA: /ˈæk sɪs/
Axis is a 4 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 19 anagrams from letters in Axis (aisx).
Definitions for Axis
noun
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the line about which a rotating body, such as the earth, turns.
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Mathematics.
a central line that bisects a two-dimensional body or figure.
a line about which a three-dimensional body or figure is symmetrical.
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Anatomy.
a central or principal structure, about which something turns or is arranged:
the second cervical vertebra.
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Botany. the longitudinal support on which organs or parts are arranged; the stem and root; the central line of any body.
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Analytic Geometry. any line used as a fixed reference in conjunction with one or more other references for determining the position of a point or of a series of points forming a curve or a surface.
Compare x-axis, y-axis.
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Crystallography. crystallographic axis.
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Aeronautics. any one of three lines defining the attitude of an airplane, one being generally determined by the direction of forward motion and the other two at right angles to it and to each other.
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Fine Arts. an imaginary line, in a given formal structure, about which a form, area, or plane is organized.
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an alliance of two or more nations to coordinate their foreign and military policies, and to draw in with them a group of dependent or supporting powers.
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the Axis, (in World War II) Germany, Italy, and Japan, often with Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
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a principal line of development, movement, direction, etc.
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axis deer.
Origin of Axis
First recorded in 1540-50, axis is from the Latin word axis an axletree, axle, axis. See axi-
Examples for Axis
Harold's unquenchable desire, the axis mundi of his existence.
For motion is either change of substance, or motion on an axis, or from one place to another.
And (b) what proof is there that the axis of the world revolves at all?
The axis of vision is not coincident with the axis of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake.
At last I heard him revolving on his axis down the corkscrew staircase.
Seasons on Earth and Titan are both due to the tilt of their axis—the way the North Pole faces—relative to their orbit.
For Reagan the “evil empire” was the Soviet Union; for George W. Bush, there was an “axis of Evil.”
The mullahs, the Israeli lobbyists, and preachers against the axis of Evil will go wild.
The motion of the earth round its axis, and round the sun, makes the day, and the year.
This could shift global media decision-making from its familiar New York-Los Angeles axis to the Bay Area.