axis 的定义
plural ax·es [ak-seez]. /ˈæk siz/.
- the line about which a rotating body, such as the earth, turns.
- Mathematics. a central line that bisects a two-dimensional body or figure.a line about which a three-dimensional body or figure is symmetrical.
- Anatomy. a central or principal structure, about which something turns or is arranged: the skeletal axis.the second cervical vertebra.
- Botany. the longitudinal support on which organs or parts are arranged; the stem and root; the central line of any body.
- Analytic Geometry. any line used as a fixed reference in conjunction with one or more other references for determining the position of a point or of a series of points forming a curve or a surface.Compare x-axis, y-axis.
- Crystallography. crystallographic axis.
- Aeronautics. any one of three lines defining the attitude of an airplane, one being generally determined by the direction of forward motion and the other two at right angles to it and to each other.
- Fine Arts. an imaginary line, in a given formal structure, about which a form, area, or plane is organized.
- an alliance of two or more nations to coordinate their foreign and military policies, and to draw in with them a group of dependent or supporting powers.
- the Axis, Germany, Italy, and Japan, often with Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
- a principal line of development, movement, direction, etc.
axis 近义词
point around which something revolves
更多axis例句
- Like Copernicus’ heliocentric model of the solar system, sometimes revolutions occur by a simple shift in the axis of rotation.
- The neuro-endocrine signals involved form the HPA axis, short for hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal.
- Al-Battani Island’s major axis was 3 miles long, while its minor axis was 2 miles long.
- It didn’t cover the entire major axis, because when it got too close to the endpoints, there was only a single point of tangency.
- Al-Battani Island’s major axis is 3 miles long, while its minor axis is 2 miles long.
- This could shift global media decision-making from its familiar New York-Los Angeles axis to the Bay Area.
- Six years later, after one more dance with FDR, Kansans returned to their normal political axis.
- For Reagan the “evil empire” was the Soviet Union; for George W. Bush, there was an “axis of Evil.”
- The HPA axis is a circuit between your brain, your hormone glands, and the rest of your body.
- Seasons on Earth and Titan are both due to the tilt of their axis—the way the North Pole faces—relative to their orbit.
- The long axis of the hip-roof crystal is often so shortened that it resembles the envelop crystal of calcium oxalate.
- Cassini observed, by the position of certain spots, the revolution of the planet Venus on its axis.
- The same would be the case if the polar axis of one sphere stood precisely at right angles to that of the other.
- Thus the wide habitability of the earth is an effect arising from the inclination of its polar axis.
- On this account the suggested alterations of the axis should not be taken as other than imaginary changes.