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Axial adj.

Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis. "To take on an axial, and not an equatorial, direction."

(Anat.) Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones.

Axial line (Magnetism), the line taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Axial" Quotes from Famous Books

... interesting to note that rounds, squares, octagons and other three axial bodies, with two of their axes equal, have the same ...

— The Working of Steel - Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel • Fred H. Colvin

... is employed on dwarf trees and on those specially trained. It should be undertaken only by a careful and experienced man. It is not to be inferred that the fruit of the apple is all borne on spurs, for some of it may be derived from terminal buds on the new axial growths or even from lateral buds; but the spurs are conspicuous and readily recognized. Of course the ordinary pruning of the tree removes fruit-bearing wood and is therefore ...

— The Apple-Tree - The Open Country Books—No. 1 • L. H. Bailey

... old dear. Herriott keeps babbling about a hidden body which is drawing the earth from its normal axial rotation, but the fool ignores the fact that a body of a size sufficient to disturb the earth would throw every motion of the solar system into a state of chaos. Nothing of the sort has happened. Ergo, no external force is causing it. I am positive ...

— The Solar Magnet • Sterner St. Paul Meek

... undergo deformations that are in relation with the laws of Ampere. It is in this manner that I have explained the different forms that the aureola of the induction spark assumes when it is submitted to the action of a magnet in the direction of its axial line, or in that of its equatorial line, or perpendicular to these latter, or upon the ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 • Various

... near the Earth's equator enjoy the best opportunities for seeing total eclipses of the Sun, because whilst the Moon's shadow travels eastwards along the Earth's surface at something like 2000 miles an hour, an observer at the equator is carried in the same direction by virtue of the Earth's axial rotation at the rate of 1040 miles an hour. But the speed imparted to an observer as the result of the Earth's axial rotation diminishes from the equator towards the poles where it is nil, so that the nearer he is to a pole the ...

— The Story of Eclipses • George Chambers

... is not equal. The Fenris year is a trifle shorter than the Terran year we use for Atomic Era dating, eight thousand and a few odd Galactic Standard hours. In that time, Fenris makes almost exactly four axial rotations. This means that on one side the sun is continuously in the sky for a thousand hours, pouring down unceasing heat, while the other side is in shadow. You sleep eight hours, and when you get up and go outside—in an insulated vehicle, or an extreme-environment ...

— Four-Day Planet • Henry Beam Piper

... the appearance of the mastodon? If they existed anywhere (which is concessively possible), with the necessary environment (also concessively possible), then the mastodon could no more help wallowing out of his essential plasma than the earth can help responding to its axial motion. All things are framed in the prodigality of nature, and she never commits an abortion upon herself. If both the conditions and necessary environment were at any time present, as they must have been on the materialistic theory, the mastodon is just as easily accounted ...

— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright

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