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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The longer of the two lines about which an ellipse is symmetrical; the axis that passes through both focuses of an ellipse.

Wiktionary

  1. n. geometry The longest diameter of an ellipse, running through the center and foci, with its ends being the widest points of the shape.
  2. n. geometry The diameter of a circle.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Geom.) The greater axis of a geometrical figure. the longest axis of an ellipse or ellipsoid, which passes through the two foci. See Focus, n., 2.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the longest axis of an ellipse or ellipsoid; passes through the two foci

Examples

  • “Apse: An extremity of the major axis of the orbit of a body; a body is at its greatest and least distances from the body about which it revolves, when at one or other apse.”

    Kepler

  • “This section consists of three high ranges that form a kind of ellipse of which the major axis is in a south-easterly direction.”

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

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  1. axis of a curve
  2. ellipse
  3. ellipsoid of revolution
  1. eccentric
  2. mean distance
  3. semielliptical
  1. rotor head
  2. rotor shaft
  3. semimajor axis
  1. cutoff saw
  2. eccentricity
  3. crosscut handsaw
  1. crosscut saw
  2. prolate ellipsoid
  3. line
  1. minor
  2. cross-sectional
  3. transverse

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