transverse axis

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noun Geometry.

the axis of a hyperbola that passes through the two foci.

the segment of such an axis included between the vertices of the hyperbola.

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Also called transverse.

Origin of transverse axis

First recorded in 1695–1705

Words nearby transverse axis

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How to use transverse axis in a sentence

This could shift global media decision-making from its familiar New York-Los Angeles axis to the Bay Area.
Battle of the Upstarts: Houston vs. San Francisco Bay|Joel Kotkin|October 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Six years later, after one more dance with FDR, Kansans returned to their normal political axis.
A Loss by Pat Roberts in Kansas? Actually, Not So Bizarre|Jeff Greenfield|October 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For Reagan the “evil empire” was the Soviet Union; for George W. Bush, there was an “axis of Evil.”
How Obama's Shallow Worldview Failed Us|Stuart Stevens|August 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The HPA axis is a circuit between your brain, your hormone glands, and the rest of your body.
We're Talking About Depression All Wrong|Jean Kim|August 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Seasons on Earth and Titan are both due to the tilt of their axis—the way the North Pole faces—relative to their orbit.
A Cloud Forms Over Saturn’s Mysterious Moon|Matthew R. Francis|August 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The long axis of the hip-roof crystal is often so shortened that it resembles the envelop crystal of calcium oxalate.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Cassini observed, by the position of certain spots, the revolution of the planet Venus on its axis.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
The second pair show that the transverse processes, from the first to the third, are those into which the muscle is inserted.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
The figures, besides being outlined by the dots, were decorated all over with the same pigment in dotted transverse belts.
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Sir Thomas de la Moore mentions long transverse trenches, similarly covered so as to bear men aware of them, but not horses.
King Robert the Bruce|A. F. Murison