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  • noun Plural form of xi.

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Examples

  • These can really be anything you can program into a MIDI device, but in the video the y-xis is set to control note velocity and the x-axis controls distortion in the form of a "digitaliser filter".

    Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2010

  • His first formal paper to the Royal Academy of Science was rejected, although the mathematicians Aléxis-Claude Clairaut and Aléxis Fontaine recognized his mathematical talent.

    The Snowbank 2009

  • And now xis___ with demands for justice x him, Mom!

    It's all Greek to me Michelle 2005

  • It is not thinkable, and yet the like of it happened to xis in Seville from our manager.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • But I am sure those ladies could have been of noble descent only in the farthest possible remove, and I do not suppose their cows were even remotely related to the haughty ox-team which blocked the way in front of the palaces and obliged xis to dismount while our carriage was lifted round the cart.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • I am sure those ladies could have been of noble descent only in the farthest possible remove, and I do not suppose their cows were even remotely related to the haughty ox-team which blocked the way in front of the palaces and obliged xis to dismount while our carriage was lifted round the cart.

    Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878

  • It is not thinkable, and yet the like of it happened to xis in Seville from our manager.

    Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878

  • Ruoy xis snisuoc emac ereh yadretsey, dna dah hcae a eceip fo ekac.

    Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796

  • Me d o xis rm f a o te m e the d c tho s f inc a ingSIC ha no b e d ve p d re s ve t e n e lo e.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows andrewfynn 2009

  • Th e s e a re a mbig uous e s pa c e s th a t e xis ts be twe e n th e ins ide a nd outs ide.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

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  • Six in reverse.

    November 3, 2007