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biaxial en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /baɪˈæksiəl/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi-bor. English bi- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-der. Proto-Italic *aksis Latin axisbor. English axis Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English axial English biaxial From bi- + axial.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having two axes.
  2. (not-comparable) Having two axes of rotation and two planes of symmetry (e.g. having the shape of a spheroid)
  3. (not-comparable) Along two axes; e.g. in engineering, a shear or compression text of a material along two axes
    • mapping the shape of the Earth onto a biaxial ellipsoid
  4. (not-comparable) Having a value in two perpendicular directions. (In solid mechanics, it generally means that normal stresses exist in two of the possible three directions, though not necessarily equal in sign or magnitude.)

Deriveds

biaxially · equibiaxial · biaxiality

Relateds

monoaxial · uniaxial · coaxial · triaxial

Translations (7)

fr biaxial (having two axes) · ca biaxial (having two axes) · pl dwuosiowy (having two axes) · de zweiachsig (having two axes) · ga dé-aiseach (having two axes) · ms dwipaksi (having two axes) · fr biaxe (having two axes)