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Synonyms for axis

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ak-sis
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæk sɪs

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Définition of axis

Origin :
  • 1540s, "imaginary straight line around which a body (such as the Earth) rotates," from Latin axis "axle, pivot, axis of the earth or sky," from PIE *aks- "axis" (cf. Old English eax, Old High German ahsa "axle;" Greek axon "axis, axle, wagon;" Sanskrit aksah "an axle, axis, beam of a balance;" Lithuanian aszis "axle"). Figurative sense in world history of "alliance between Germany and Italy" (later extended unetymologically to include Japan) is from 1936. Original reference was to a "Rome-Berlin axis" in central Europe. The word later was used in reference to a London-Washington axis (World War II) and a Moscow-Peking axis (early Cold War).
  • noun point around which something revolves
Example sentences :
  • At last I heard him revolving on his axis down the corkscrew staircase.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • And (b) what proof is there that the axis of the world revolves at all?
  • Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato
  • For motion is either change of substance, or motion on an axis, or from one place to another.
  • Extract from : « Parmenides » by Plato
  • The motion of the earth round its axis, and round the sun, makes the day, and the year.
  • Extract from : « Nature » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The axis of vision is not coincident with the axis of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake.
  • Extract from : « Nature » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Izanagi struck his tall spear in the ground making it the axis of the world.
  • Extract from : « Japanese Fairy World » by William Elliot Griffis
  • I can halt, for a brief moment only, the whirl of the earth about its axis.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 » by Various
  • There was a great wheel, which revolved on an axis, like a vertical mill wheel.
  • Extract from : « Rollo in Paris » by Jacob Abbott
  • Then he turned a laughing face upon them, moving slowly on his axis.
  • Extract from : « Aunt Rachel » by David Christie Murray
  • The plate will consequently turn on this axis, as on a hinge.
  • Extract from : « The Teacher » by Jacob Abbott

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