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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If his predictions are correct, Axial Seamount will have already erupted.
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
Burns is embedded on a ship with Chadwick and other researchers, reporting on the serious scientific effort to study the Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano 300 miles off the Oregon coast.
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 rotation is necessary in evolution, the ancient physics teaches, which must cease with it.
From Ancient and Modern Physics by Willson, Thomas E.
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