Phrase Hound found 43 phrases and 18 compound words that contain axis. The most common are listed below. Open axis in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 43
- axis of evilA group of states accused by George W. Bush of sponsoring terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction, originally defined as Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.
- Axis of ResistanceAlternative letter-case form of axis of resistance.
- x-axisThe axis on a graph that is usually drawn left to right and usually shows the range of values of an independent variable.
- axis of rotationThe axis about which any body rotates.
- axis of symmetryAny of one or more lines about which a geometric figure is symmetric
- Axis powerA country in the alliance (in effect before and during World War II) of Nazi Germany, Kingdom of Italy, Empire of Japan, and a few other countries, which opposed the Allies.
- Vertical axis
- y-axisThe axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top and usually shows the range of values of variable dependent on one other variable, or the second of two independent variables.
- z-axisThe axis on a graph of at least three dimensions that is usually drawn vertically and usually shows the range of values of a variable dependent on two other variables or the third independent variable.
- Horizontal axis
- major axisThe longest diameter of an ellipse, running through the center and foci, with its ends being the widest points of the shape.
- real axisThe horizontal line in the complex plane, every point on which corresponds to a real number.
- minor axisThe shortest diameter of an ellipse, which bisects the major axis at a right angle.
- imaginary axisThe vertical line in the complex plane, every point on which corresponds to a complex number having zero real component.
- Axis AgeSynonym of Axial Age: The age from about the 8th to the 3rd century BCE, during which broad changes in religious and philosophical thought occurred in a variety of locations.
- coordinate axisOne of the lines in the coordinate system that represents one of the dimensions.
- semimajor axisHalf of the major axis of a circle or ellipse.
- Axis progressionA chord progression, I–V–vi–IV, used in Western popular music, common since the 1970s.
- axis of upheavalThe alleged antiwestern collaboration between China, Iran, North Korea and Russia.
- Axis powersplural of Axis power: A country in the alliance (in effect before and during World War II) of Nazi Germany, Kingdom of Italy, Empire of Japan, and a few other countries, which opposed the Allies.
- figure axisThe symmetrical axis of a body. In the case of the Earth, it differs from the rotational axis by a few meters, and so is a partial cause of the Earth's wobble.
- optical axisAn imaginary line within an optical system around which there is rotational symmetry.
- visual axisThe optical axis of an eye (extending from the viewed object through the centre of the pupil to the yellow spot of the retina)
- optic axisThe optical axis.
- axis deerA South Asian deer, the chital, Axis axis
Compound words 18
- interaxisThe space between two axes.
- axicalAlternative form of axial: Relating to, resembling, or situated on an axis
- axipetalTending toward the center or axis
- coaxisOne of the directional motion vectors perpendicular to a cocone.
- eigenaxisAn eigenvector of an axis of rotation
- multiaxisOf or relating to more than one axis.
- pseudoaxisA sympodium.
- semiaxisA line segment, joining the centre of a figure to an edge, that forms half of an axis of symmetry.
- vivaxisA kind of spiritual energy field.
- axissymmetricMisspelling of axisymmetric: Exhibiting symmetry around an axis; exhibiting cylindrical symmetry; axially symmetric