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

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