单词 | axis |
释义 | axis (æksɪs ) Word forms: axes 1. countable noun An axis is an imaginary line through the middle of something. 2. countable noun An axis of a graph is one of the two lines on which the scales of measurement are marked. Collocations: central axis I think: magnificent central axis, perfect balance, good neck muscles, she'd breeze a green wave. Times, Sunday Times This lines one side of a path leading on a central axis from the house. Times, Sunday Times When activated, the upper face pushed down on the lower face, while revolving around a central axis, which pulled the needle. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Extending out from a central axis are microsporophylls (modified leaves). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He even sacrifices the car part that had finally arrived so that a crucial central axis part will work. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The lobby runs the length of the building along an east-west axis. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The dunes are roughly 7 mi long in the east-west axis. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 All three are aligned along an east-west axis. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The physical construction of the house required setting up four posts to represent the four cardinal directions, aligned almost exactly with the north-south, east-west axis. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His east-west axis included a square, treelined esplanade and formal garden. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The graph starts above the horizontal axis and finishes below it. Times, Sunday Times The graph had the number of points scored last season on the horizontal axis and the percentage of clubs with that number of points on the vertical axis. Times, Sunday Times While traditional top-loading machines are less expensive up-front, their other costs are much greater than those of the horizontal axis, or front-loading, washing machine. Globe and Mail The horizontal axis represents years. Times, Sunday Times To visualise the relationship between these two ideas, imagine a graph on which the vertical axis measures a state's stability and the horizontal axis measures its openness. Times, Sunday Times Those who wish to argue must discuss such things as 'the angle between the longitudinal axis of the upper arm and forearm in the sagittal plane'. Times, Sunday Times This differential lift causes bank rotation around the longitudinal axis. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The most common aeronautical convention defines the roll as acting about the longitudinal axis, positive with the starboard (right) wing down. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Unlike most pop-up headlights, they both rotated in the same direction (counterclockwise from inside the car) about a longitudinal axis. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The ionization chambers were cylindrical, in diameter, long, with a wire along the longitudinal axis. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In a couple of miles, you leave the great north-south axis in favour of rustic backwaters untroubled since long before the motor car. Times, Sunday Times Its meandering route, which links two far-flung suburbs, seems eccentric, given the desperate need for better connectivity on the city's main north-south axis. Times, Sunday Times They're organized along the north-south axis as parallel worlds, with myriad personalities defined by the plantings, the furnishings or play structures. Globe and Mail The cameras could also be focused on particular locations as the satellites orbited the planet on a north-south axis. Times, Sunday Times The whole island was elongated about in the north-south axis and compressed west-east by the forces unleashed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some of these could emit a gamma-ray burst that funnels radiation very narrowly along the star’s rotational axis. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When an off-kilter magnetic field swings around the rotational axis, it creates periodic radio signals that can be used to calculate its rotation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Archer notes that an explosion triggered on the surface of the comet by the away team has altered the comet's rotational axis. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This device uses a cylindrical rotor with longitudinal ducts parallel to its rotational axis. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These cams are principally used to convert rotational motion to linear motion parallel to the rotational axis of the cylinder. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Note that the vertical axis measures dollars spent on the composite good, not quantities purchased. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice (1995) The vertical axis shows the ratio of international prices to domestic prices. Collins Dictionary of Economics (1993) We were reviewing the metrics and I asked if the units on the vertical axis were thousands or tens of thousands. Times, Sunday Times (2016) This apparatus represents a paraboloid of rotation, which can be set in a regulable rotation around the vertical axis. 2006, 'Topographic instability of flow in a rotating fluid', Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Translations: Chinese: 轴 Japanese: 軸 |
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