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单词 axis
释义
axisax‧is /ˈæksɪs/ ●○○ noun (plural axes /-siːz/) [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINaxis
Origin:
1300-1400 Latin ‘axis, axle’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • An outer cylinder of platinum was used as the anode, with a rod of palladium on its axis as the cathode.
  • Concern for production is illustrated on the horizontal axis.
  • In Fig. 11-7 the wage rates for labour in the two localities are shown on the vertical axis.
  • Muscle strips were mounted with the longitudinal axis parallel to the direction of the circular muscle bundles.
  • The Earth spins on an axis, creating north and south poles.
  • These edges can be considered mutually exclusive interpretations of some stretch of the utterance defined by the z and x axis.
  • This hypothesis generates an infinite set of indifference curves which are convex to the L axis.
word sets
WORD SETS
avalanche, nounaxis, nouncatchment area, nouncrater, noundinosaur, noundivide, nounelement, nounextinct, adjectivegallery, noungeo-, prefixgeophysics, nounglacial, adjectiveglaciation, noungoldfield, nounlandslide, nounlandslip, nounleach, verbmagnetic pole, nounmagnitude, nounmantle, nounmeteorite, nounmolten, adjectivemother lode, nounnatural history, nounonyx, nounopal, nounozone layer, nounpaleontology, nounpitchblende, nounPleistocene, adjectivePliocene, adjectiveprimeval, adjectivequake, verbquake, nounrarefied, adjectiverock, verbscour, verbshock wave, nounslide, nounsoapstone, nounstony, adjectivestream, nounstrip mine, nounsubcontinent, nounsubterranean, adjectivesuperficial, adjectiveterrain, nounterrestrial, adjectivetremor, nounundercurrent, nounvolcanic, adjectivevolcano, nounvortex, nounwater table, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· Over thousands of years, the direction of Earth’s axis slowly changes.
 the vertical axis of a graph
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Light is most intense along the central axis of each fan.· The central axis of the Space Station, with its docking arms extended, was now slowly swimming toward them.· The two ribbons are most sensitive to sounds arriving from forty-five degrees on either side of the central axis.· I decided to use the directionality and linearity of the central axis.· It is rather as though there is a central axis, around which the gemstone of beauty is formed.· The central axis of their variation is their degree of autonomy.
· These peaks, together with a crystallographic twofold axis, were interpreted as possibly resulting from 52 point-group symmetry.· Because bond strengths may differ along the various crystallographic axes, hardness may also vary slightly in direction.· Under these conditions, the scattered flux is minimal along the crystallographic axes.· This results in scattering minima along the crystallographic axes and maxima at intermediate axes.
· Along the horizontal axis are measured the supply of and demand for labour in the ith market, and respectively.· Concern for production is illustrated on the horizontal axis.· The serious aerial photographer will be looking for adjustment through vertical and horizontal axes so that the field of view is precise.· A leader with a rating of nine on the horizontal axis has a maximum concern for production.· The horizontal axis has the most frequently preserved part of the bone, namely the distal humerus and proximal femur.· On the horizontal axis is 0, the ideal variety of consumers.· However, as the frequency was only doubled in the horizontal axis the benefits were lost if you printed landscape format text!· As they use much thinner weft than warp strands, more knots are tied on the vertical than the horizontal axis.
· The orientation of the long axis of an elliptical borehole is displayed when the break-out criteria are satisfied.· A consistent orientation of the long axis towards 40-60 degrees east was found.· The long axis of the bar is vertical and the dotted lines indicate our line of sight to the Galactic Centre.· In the prognathous head the long axis is horizontal, or slightly inclined ventrally, while the mouthparts are anterior in position.
· Translated into actual streets, this meant the creation of two main axes, one North-South and the other East-West.· Its raw material and main axis is information.· These were mainly disposed along the main axis of the monument, with a number clustered on platforms raised on either side.· It may even turn out that these growth factors are the signals from the organizer which specify the main body axis.· Very roughly we can characterise perhaps four main axes to this debate.· Entering, you are drawn down the main axis by curves.· Equator: The plane through the middle of the cell, at right angles to the main axis of the spindle.
· Whereas the extremities of a parabola become parallel to its major axis, the asymptotes of a hyperbola cross one another.
· They are established by the extension of any of the budget segments backwards to the right-side vertical axis.· Concern for people is illustrated on the vertical axis.· The serious aerial photographer will be looking for adjustment through vertical and horizontal axes so that the field of view is precise.· People become more important to the leader as his or her rating progresses up the vertical axis.· In Fig. 11-7 the wage rates for labour in the two localities are shown on the vertical axis.· A leader with a rating of nine on the vertical axis has maximum concern for people.· The vertical axis to the same scale represents elapsed time and the diagonal is drawn in as shown.· The real wage is measured along the vertical axis and labour services are measured along the horizontal axis.
NOUN
· Its distance from the planet's spin axis must therefore be decreasing.· Radar observations have also shown that the inclination of the spin axis is less than 3°.· This shows the simple case of a spin axis which is perpendicular to the line of sight.
VERB
· The real wage is measured along the vertical axis and labour services are measured along the horizontal axis.
· The Earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours.· In theory, the model should rotate about its vertical axis until the control is released and then stop.· The series is set on a giant space station shaped like a cylinder rotating about an axis along its length.· Pictures can be rotated about any axis.
· In Fig. 11-7 the wage rates for labour in the two localities are shown on the vertical axis.· Graphics are generally more readable when explanatory variables are shown along a horizontal axis and outcome variables vertically.· Reference to the column of the character table showing the Cartesian axis directions then gives the symmetry species directly.
· Without this we would see a changing face as the Moon turned on its axis.· The earth was doing what it always did, turning on its axis.
1the imaginary line around which a large round object, such as the Earth, turns:  The Earth rotates on an axis between the north and south poles.2a line drawn across the middle of a regular shape that divides it into two equal parts3either of the two lines of a graph, by which the positions of points are measuredthe vertical/horizontal axis
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