axial
IPA: ˈæksiʌɫ
noun
- (ornithology) A flight feather that appears between the primaries and secondaries on some birds.
- (dentistry) A plane parallel to the surface of a tooth.
adjective
- Relating to, resembling, or situated on an axis
- (anatomy) Belonging to the axis of the body, or to the axis of any appendage or organ
- (botany) In the same direction as the axis, parallel to the axis.
- (chemistry) oriented close to the axis running through the centre of a cyclohexane ring, as opposed to equatorial. See w:Axial bond.
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Examples of "axial" in Sentences
- But there can be still another kind of axial tilt.
- The passage and the protrusion are axially aligned.
- Glucose prefers the axial conformation in the gas phase.
- The journal is conical and axially formlocked in the hole.
- The particle set itself an isomorphous magnetic crystal axially.
- The rollers are pivotably mounted on an axially immovable support.
- The catch is free to pivot through an axial cutout in the pilot pin.
- For this reason, these machines are referred to as axial-flow turbines.
- The elastic covering is like a tire but oversize in the axial direction.
- The single control moves axially and vertically with respect to the syringe.
- The cushion chamber pressure is a function of the axial position of the piston.
- The diagonal lines of the matrices extend axially and transversely of the plait.
- The centrifugal pump design permits rotation of the impeller at lower speeds (RPM) to achieve desired flows compared to other designs such as axial flow pumps.
- The period from roughly 900 BC to 200 BC is referred to as an "axial age" because it set the orientation or direction for spirituality for more than two thousand years into the future.
- CT scans, previously known as CAT scans (they dropped the word "axial"), are done with machines that look like MRI (magnetic something or other) machines, with your whole body in a wee little tunnel.
- The phrase "axial age" has been used to describe the relatively brief period of time -- roughly 700 years -- when the great religions of the world arose: Hinduism and Buddhism in India; Confucianism a...
- The phrase "axial age" has been used to describe the relatively brief period of time -- roughly 700 years -- when the great religions of the world arose: Hinduism and Buddhism in India; Confucianism and Taoism in China; and monotheism in the Middle East.
- And the question of the Axial Age, and the mysterious resemblance of the modern transition to such 'axial' periods in its explosive discontinuity, almost like a punctuated equilibrium, looms in the background making most sociological thinking inadequate to the task.