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  1. noun A straight line about which a body or geometric object rotates or may be conceived to rotate.
  2. noun Mathematics An unlimited line, half-line, or line segment serving to orient a space or a geometric object, especially a line about which the object is symmetric.
  3. noun Mathematics A reference line from which distances or angles are measured in a coordinate system.
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  • This axis is the chemical communication link between the pituitary and the adrenal glands, which controls our flight-or-fight mechanism. —  Omni: July 1993
  • For one axis of the crystal was optical, another axis was a superconductor of electricity. —  August, 1947
  • It rotates 360 degrees on an axis, which is essential for switching from landscape to vertical modes. —  Apple iPhone Review
  • The Obama administration has adopted a new approach to the Shiite Islamist government in Iran, pledging to engage a country which Bush included in what he called the axis of evil. —  The Daily Star > News Feed
  • If you graph unit cost on the y-axis and output Q on the x-axis, then the curve for the long run is the shape of a big bowl (or "U" with a flattened bottom): downward sloping for small Q, flat for medium Q, and then upward sloping for large Q. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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  1. Middle English, from Latin.

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  1. Latin, axle, axis, pole of the earth; poetical, the heavens; also, a board or plank (see ashler); = Anglo-Saxon eax, English ax, axle: see ax, axle.
  2. Latin axis (Pliny); perhaps of East Indian origin.
 

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