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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Half an axis, as of a hyperbola.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geom.) One half of the axis of an �llipse or other figure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mathematics A
line segment , joining thecentre of a figure to anedge , that forms half of anaxis of symmetry
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