1. axis

noun. ['ˈæksəs'] a straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions.

Words that Rhyme with Axis

• metaxas
• mataksas
• maxus

Example sentences of the word axis

1. Noun, singular or mass
Right-click on the line in the graph that you want to plot on a secondary axis.

Quotes containing the word axis

1. Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
- Hanh Nhat Thich

2. A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.
- Jorge Luis Borges

3. It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep...a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis.
- Lisa Kleypas, Tempt Me at Twilight

2. y-axis

noun. the vertical axis in a plane coordinate system.

3. z-axis

noun. the third axis in a 3-dimensional coordinate system.

4. x-axis

noun. the horizontal axis in a plane coordinate system.

5. axis

noun. ['ˈæksəs'] the 2nd cervical vertebra; serves as a pivot for turning the head.

6. axis

noun. ['ˈæksəs'] the center around which something rotates.

7. Axis

noun. in World War II the alliance of Germany and Italy in 1936 which later included Japan and other nations.

8. axis

noun. ['ˈæksəs'] a group of countries in special alliance.

9. axis

noun. ['ˈæksəs'] the main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged.