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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Having two axes. not-comparable
2. 2
   Having two axes of rotation and two planes of symmetry (e.g. having the shape of a spheroid) not-comparable
3. 3
   Along two axes; e.g. in engineering, a shear or compression text of a material along two axes not-comparable

   "mapping the shape of the Earth onto a biaxial ellipsoid"

4. 4
   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.) not-comparable

Adjective

1. 1
   having two axes wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

biaxalbiaxatebicameralbicuspidbinomialbipartite

Example

More examples

"mapping the shape of the Earth onto a biaxial ellipsoid"

Etymology

From bi- + axial.

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