Axial

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Relating to, characterized by, or forming an axis.
  • adj. Located on, around, or in the direction of an axis.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.
  • adj. Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones.
  • adj. in the same direction as the axis, parallel to the axis.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.
  • adj. Belonging to the axis of the body; ; or to the axis of any appendage or organ.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or of the nature of an axis.
  • Situated in an axis or in the axis.
  • In anatomy, pertaining to the somatic as distinguished from the membral portions of the body; not appendicular.
  • In geology, forming the axis, central dominating portion, or crest of a mountain-range.
  • Sometimes axal.
  • A nerve running in a special groove on the floor of the main brachial groove and proceeding from the aboral or dorsal nervous system. It sends branches to the muscles of the arms and to the supposed sensory endings in the ectoderm.
  • The projection of the crystallographic axes of a given species, as used, for example, in the drawing of crystals.
  • n. In mathematics, an axial pencil.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. relating to or attached to the axis
  • adj. situated on or along or in the direction of an axis
  • adj. of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation
  • Equivalent
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pivotal   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    biaxial    coaxial   
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    radial    rotational    equatorial    vertical    perpendicular    molecular    uniaxial    upward    spatial    tensile