adjective
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relating to, forming, or characteristic of an axis
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situated in, on, or along an axis
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Etymology
Origin of axial
Example Sentences
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Axial Seamount is one of countless volcanoes that are underwater.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025
Axial symptoms, which have not received extensive study in relation to DBS, improved with stimulation of tracts connected to the supplementary motor cortex and brainstem.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2024
“We expect sabotage, crab sabotage. Because there’s obviously a battle going on between Jason and the crabs at Axial Seamount,” Oregon State University volcanologist Bill Chadwick told Burns.
From The Verge • Jul. 5, 2022
Axial flux electric motors are flat, round devices - dubbed “pancakes” - that are lighter and more efficient than conventional cylindrical “radial flux” motors, or “sausages.”
From Reuters • Sep. 27, 2021
Axial energy, transformed by the working of one cyclical process, is being as continuously returned by the simultaneous operation of others.
From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by Weir, James
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