polar axis
the fixed line, usually horizontal, from which the angle made by the radius vector is measured in a polar coordinate system.
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How to use polar axis in a sentence
The same would be the case if the polar axis of one sphere stood precisely at right angles to that of the other.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate ShalerThus the wide habitability of the earth is an effect arising from the inclination of its polar axis.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate ShalerLet us conceive a particle of air situated immediately over the earth's polar axis.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate ShalerThe errors of the polar axis were finally reduced to within the limits of error of observation.
Photographs of Nebul and Clusters | James Edward KeelerThe declination axis is short, and is supported by a massive goose-neck bolted to the upper end of the polar axis.
Photographs of Nebul and Clusters | James Edward Keeler
British Dictionary definitions for polar axis
the fixed line in a system of polar coordinates from which the polar angle, θ, is measured anticlockwise
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