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biaxial

adj
/baɪˈæksiəl/

Etymology

From bi- + axial.

  1. derived from *h₂eḱs-✻
  2. borrowed from axis — “axle, axis”
  3. formed as axial — “axis + -al”
  4. prefixed as biaxial — “bi + axial”

Definitions

  1. Having two axes.

  2. Having two axes of rotation and two planes of symmetry (e.g. having the shape of a…

    Having two axes of rotation and two planes of symmetry (e.g. having the shape of a spheroid)

  3. Along two axes

    Along two axes; e.g. in engineering, a shear or compression text of a material along two axes

    • mapping the shape of the Earth onto a biaxial ellipsoid
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Having a value in two perpendicular directions. (In solid mechanics, it generally means…

      Having a value in two perpendicular directions. (In solid mechanics, it generally means that normal stresses exist in two of the possible three directions, though not necessarily equal in sign or magnitude.)

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Derived

biaxiality, biaxially, equibiaxial

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA