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x-axis

/eks-ak-sis/US // ˈɛksˌæk sɪs //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural x-ax·es [eks-ak-seez]. /ˈɛksˌæk siz/. Mathematics.

    • : Also called axis of abscissas. the axis, usually horizontal, along which the abscissa is measured and from which the ordinate is measured.
    • : the axis along which values of x are measured and at which both y and z equal zero.

Examples

  • An x-ray two hours later confirms my hunch: my tibia (the big bone behind the shin) is snapped clean in two.

  • “Getting out of X band is on option,” said one senior Air Force official.

  • I made experimental commercials in the experimental division of a production house, Film X, that made commercials for ad agencies.

  • In fact, both brothers have acting IMDb credits: Drew on Smallville and Jonathan on The X-Files.

  • A bunch of old, white, rock titans come together with young, white, X Factor hotties to persuade Britain to heal Africa.

  • He thought they were now in touch with our troops at "X" but that they had been through some hard fighting to get there.

  • W was a Watchman, and guarded the door; X was expensive, and so became poor.

  • Idly his pen traced upon the paper in front of him a large X, the sign of the unknown quantity.

  • The Professor took his pen and wrote a large X upon the sheet of paper in front of him.

  • The long axis of the hip-roof crystal is often so shortened that it resembles the envelop crystal of calcium oxalate.