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biaxal

biaxal is the archaic form of biaxial.

Meaning of biaxial

Adjective

biaxial (not comparable)

  1. Having two axes.
  2. Having two axes of rotation and two planes of symmetry (e.g. having the shape of a spheroid)
  3. Along two axes; e.g. in engineering, a shear or compression text of a material along two axes
    • mapping the shape of the Earth onto a biaxial ellipsoid
  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.)

Origin of biaxal

From bi- + axal.

Questions about biaxal

What is biaxal the archaic form of?
Biaxal is the archaic form of biaxial.

Words near biaxal in the dictionary

  1. biauricular
  2. biauriculate
  3. biautomata
  4. biautomatic
  5. biautomaton
  6. biaxal
  7. biaxial
  8. biaxiality
  9. biaxially
  10. BIAZA
  11. Biała

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