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AXIS (Lat. for " axle ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 68 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AXIS (See also:Lat. for " See also:axle ")  , a word having the same meaning as See also:axle, and also used with many extensions of this See also:primary meaning . It denotes the imaginary See also:line about which a See also:body or See also:system of bodies rotates, or a line about which a body or See also:action is symmetrically disposed . In See also:geometry, and in geometrical See also:crystallography, the See also:term denotes a line which serves to aid the See also:orientation of a figure . In See also:anatomy, it is, among other uses, applied to the second cervical vertebra, and in See also:botany it means the See also:stem .

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