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Wiktionary

  1. n. common misspelling of axes. Mistakenly used for the plural of axis ("line around which object rotates").
  2. n. Plural form of deer)">axis (type of deer).

Etymologies

  1. See axis (Wiktionary)

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  • “If the curve dips below both axises (both revenue and purity) then you are probably a golfer from Florida. trialsanderrors Says:”

    Like a virgin for the money.

  • “Another being that the parties in those groups often vary quite widely on these axises.”

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  • “PeterRings can be aligned or misaligned in 2 axises.”

    Bases and Rings, and Other Bad Things

  • “However, I prefer the kind where they work on two axises so that you can control the temperature separate from the pressure, unlike the two knob solution where if you change the temperature you have to fiddle with the other knob.”

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  • “It takes some time to change for this, but on the axises, you can quite easily get any variable you would like to have.”

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  • “I wonder whether we were being watched today because Linnea was breastfeeding, or because Linnea was breastfeeding while doing pushups and twisting through 180 degrees on each of two axes axises?”

    All About Linnea

  • “It is natural that whenever they see the defense of Baghdad, defiant, the more they will try to focus and that's how the enemy weakened its own capabilities on the other axises or made them less than before.”

    CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2003

  • “M. de Buffon in making this experiment observed, that the red edge of the silk was not only deeper coloured than the original silk; but, on his retreating a little from it, it became oblong, and at length divided into two, which must have been owing to his observing it either before or behind the point of intersection of the two optic axises.”

    Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life

  • “Thus in respect to the eye, the irritation from external stimuli, and the power of volition during our waking hours, elevate the eye-lids, adapt the aperture of the iris to the quantity of light, the focus of the crystalline humour, and the angle of the optic axises to the distance of the object, all which perpetual activity during the day expends much sensorial power, which is saved during our sleep.”

    Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life

  • “Sometimes the form of the spectrum, when it has been received from a circular luminous body, will become oblong; and sometimes it will be divided into two circular spectra, which is not owing to our changing the angle made by the two optic axises, according to the distance of the clouds or other bodies to which the spectrum is supposed to be contiguous, but to other causes mentioned in No.X. 3. of this section.”

    Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life

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