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The "A" in "CAT scan"
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axial
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Word definitions for axial in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to an axis," by 1825, from axis + -al (1). Related: Axially .
Usage examples of axial.
There were a few gaps through, for the axial corridors connecting the main cylinder to the nonrotating docking net at each end, shafts for the pipes carrying fluid to and from the fins, and the observation gallery.
They were arranged in pairs, counter-rotating around an axial shaft to balance precession.
It also cut power and environmental feeds to the section of the starship around the maintenance bay and closed the first set of emergency pressure doors along the main axial corridor.
Lawrence as his helmet rose through the hatchway into the axial corridor.
But controlling the axial corridor gives them the power and environment feeds to the wheel.
Internal cameras had pinpointed seven crewmen remaining: three were waiting in a lifeboat, two were inside refuge chambers, while another two had put on spacesuits and were trying to get back into the axial corridor.
The axial corridor began to creak loudly as the bearings changed their magnetic fields to act as a brake on the momentum of the tremendous wheels.
He was familiar enough with the layout of this type of vessel and went straight to the axial shaft.
She lay back on the bed, staring through the transparent roof at the lazy winding valleys beyond the dimming axial light-tube.
She was standing barefoot on thick, cool grass beside a broad stream, the axial light-tube shining like a thread of captured sunlight overhead.
Iryala, but as virtually the entire human population of recent millennia lives in the equatorial zone, axial tilt does not directly impact the lives of Terfreyans.
Painfully tentative tugs at its contractile strands brought the dense, dark axial bar safely down into the pit.
People nowadays knew that the earth circled the sun, that in the axial tilt they had their seasons confirmed.
Computerized axial tomography allowed one to look into the human cranium, revealing the brain slice by slice.
A tendegree axial tilt, together with the orbit, means that the northern part of the Arctican continent spends half its year in unbroken sunlessness.