axiom
noun
a self-evident truth that requires no proof.
axioms
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pluralof axiom.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But the math professor who’s now working for a math startup did share one of his own axioms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Their mathematics and geometry, built on logical proofs from axioms, remain eternal.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025
One of the key axioms of politics in our, and any other, era is that nothing lasts forever.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2025
“One of the axioms of the system of international relations is that such a system is intrinsically anarchic.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
From them, it should be possible to derive a complete system of knowledge embracing every aspect of the natural world, just as one can deduce the whole of Euclidean geometry from five axioms.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
