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interaxis

interaxis noun: the space between two axes.

Noun

interaxis (plural interaxes)

  1. The space between two axes.
    • The doors, windows, niches, and the like, are then placed centrally in the interaxes.1842, Joseph Gwilt, Encyclopaedia of Architecture
    • The small order is 16½ braccia high, i.e. eleven times the diameter of the base of the columns (which is 1½ braccia) and one and a half times the interaxis.2002, Leonardo Benevolo, The Architecture of the Renaissance - Volume 1, page 72
  2. A line from the center of a regular solid to the center of one of its edges.
    • The principles of analytical geometry afford the means of determining how much the interaxes of the regular octahedron must be increased or diminished to equal the interaxes in these different forms.1854, James Dwight Dana, A System of Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent Discoveries, page 106
    • Owing to this I was only able, by breaking a number of the quartz pieces, to obtain one small crystal representing a distorted rhombic dodecahedron ∞ 0(110), i.e., one extended in the line of an octahedral or trigonal interaxis, giving it the appearance of an hexagonal prism terminated by a...1885, George H. F. Ulrich, “Notes on some Mineral Occurrences At Dusky Sound, West coast of Middle Island, New Zealand”, in The New Zealand Journal of Science, volume 1, page 309
  3. The distance between the axes (centers of rotation) of two items that interact along a spiral groove, such as intermeshing screws or a vinyl record and needle.
    • Because the screws are intermeshing and conjugated, and their interaxis is fixed, the larger the channel depth h, the larger the screws external diameter D.1983, F. Martelli, Twin-Screw Extruders: A Basic Understanding, page 93
    • In addition, TSE can either be intermeshing (Fig. 23.7), when the interaxis (l) is less than the sum of the radii of the two screws, that is when the flights of one screw penetrate into the channel of the other screw and vice versa; or nonintermeshing, when the interaxis is equal to the sumb of the...2013, Enrique Saldivar-Guerra, Eduardo Vivaldo-Lima, Handbook of Polymer Synthesis, Characterization, and Processing

Adjective

interaxis (not comparable)

  1. Between axes (any sense).
    • It is possible to give smaller interaxis distance than the rotor radius when the shafts are inclined a small angle to each other (so-called " Synchropter ") , and the limiting case this interaxis distance approaching zero is the coaxial rotors configuration.1957, Ōsaka Furitsu Daigaku, Bulletin of University of Osaka Prefecture, page 42
    • The single-axis approach to the design of the servosystem is expedient, but it ignores the effect of mechanical and electromechanical interaxis coupling.1959, NASA Technical Note - Issues 2981-2990, page 26
  2. Pertaining to the perpendicularity (or deviation therefrom) of a set of resolver windings when another set of windings is excited.
    • However, interaxis perpendicularity errors will be included [ see paragraph M ) ] .1954, Institute of Radio Engineers. Professional Group on Component Parts, Transactions - Volume 1, Issue 1 - Volume 4, Issue 3, page 5
    • Inherent electrical errors, which consist of conformity and interaxis errors, result from rotor and stator ellipticity and eccentricity, and imperfect winding and flux distribution.1985, Harold A. Rothbart, Mechanical Design and Systems Handbook, page 41-11

Examples of interaxis in a sentence

  • The analyses performed have shown the importance of the longitudinal distance (interaxis) for in-series applications.2009, Alberto Lamberti, Leopoldo Franco, Giuseppe Roberto Tomasicchio, Coastal Structures 2007, page 1319:
  • The interaxis angles for human deoxyhemoglobin and horse methemoglobin are based on the refined heme iron positions as given in references 7 and 11, respectively.2012, Winslow Caughey, Biochemical and Clinical Aspects of Hemoglobin Abnormalities, page 101:
  • Intermeshing screws are designed such that their interaxis distance (center-to-center distance between the axis of the screws) is much smaller than the sum of their radii.2020, Girish M. Ganjyal, Extrusion Cooking: Cereal Grains Processing, page 34:
  • In early stages of mineralization the molecules are parallel to the fibril axis with an average interaxis distance of 1.8 nm.1989, Melvin J. Glimcher, Jane B. Lian, The Chemistry and Biology of Mineralized Tissues, page 149:

Forms of interaxis

pluralinteraxes

Origin of interaxis

From inter- + axis.

Questions about interaxis

What does interaxis mean?
Interaxis means the space between two axes.
How do you use interaxis in a sentence?
The analyses performed have shown the importance of the longitudinal distance (interaxis) for in-series applications.
What part of speech is interaxis?
Interaxis can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of interaxis?
The plural of interaxis is interaxes.

Words near interaxis in the dictionary

  1. interavalanche
  2. interaxal
  3. interaxes
  4. interaxial
  5. interaxillary
  6. interaxis
  7. interaxle
  8. interaxonal
  9. interbacterial
  10. interbacterially
  11. interband

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