Axis

['æksɪs]

解释:

(noun.) the center around which something rotates.

(noun.) the 2nd cervical vertebra; serves as a pivot for turning the head.

(noun.) a straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions.

(noun.) in World War II the alliance of Germany and Italy in 1936 which later included Japan and other nations; 'the Axis opposed the Allies in World War II'.

(noun.) the main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged.

编辑:瑞伊--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).

(n.) A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged.

(n.) A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center.

(n.) The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body.

(n.) The second vertebra of the neck, or vertebra dentata.

(n.) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon.

(n.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded.

(n.) The primary or secondary central line of any design.

编辑:利拉

同义词及近义词:

n. Shaft, spindle, arbor.

校对:沃尔多

解释:

n. the axle or the line real or imaginary on which a body revolves: the straight line about which the parts of a body or system are systematically arranged or which passes through the centre of all the corresponding parallel sections of it as of a cylinder globe or spheroid. The axis of a curved line is formed by a right line dividing the curve into two symmetrical parts as in the parabola ellipse and hyperbola:—pl. Axes (aks′ēz).—adj. Ax′ial.—adv. Ax′ially.—n. Ax′oid a curve generated by the revolution of a point round an advancing axis.—Axis of a lens the right line passing through a lens in such a manner as to be perpendicular to both sides of it; Axis of a telescope a right line which passes through the centres of all the glasses in the tube; Axis of incidence the line passing through the point of incidence perpendicularly to the refracting surface; Axis of refraction the continuation of the same line through the refracting medium; Axis of the equator the polar diameter of the earth which is also the axis of rotation; Axis of the eye the right line passing through the centres of the pupil and the crystalline lens.

n. the hog-deer of India.

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