Crossword clues for axial
axial
- Situated between poles
- Of the line on which an object rotates
- Of a graph line
- Located along a central line
- From pole to pole
- Along the line of rotation
- Along a line
- The A of CAT scan
- The A in 'CAT scan'
- Of planetary tilts
- Of a rotational line
- Like x and y on a graph
- Like the symmetry of baseball bats
- Like some skeletons
- Like an x or y line
- Like an x or y graph line
- Like a saucer's symmetry
- Like a hockey puck's symmetry
- Like a Frisbee's symmetry
- Like a baseball bat's symmetry
- Kind of 3-D symmetry
- In a direction from pole to pole
- Forming a line of symmetry
- Equatorial's opposite
- Along a rotation line
- The A in "CAT scan"
- About the line of rotation
- Kind of symmetry
- Kind of skeleton or symmetry
- Perpendicular to radial
- Variety of symmetry
- Having a line of symmetry
- Like some rotations
- Like some symmetry
- Like the rotation of the earth
- Forming a center line
- Having a line of rotation
- _____-flow turbine
- Of Earth's bisecting line
- Of the line on which Earth turns
- Kind of angle or feather
- Side motorists adopt left of imaginary line
- Forming a line, team advanced to block Arsenal's wingers
- Like a 22 Across
- Relating to lines of rotation
- Relating to a line of rotation
- Part of CAT
- Along the middle
- The "A" in "CAT scan"
- Located around a central hub
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Axial \Ax"i*al\, a.
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Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.
To take on an axial, and not an equatorial, direction.
--Nichol. -
(Anat.) Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones.
Axial line (Magnetism), the line taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other.
--Faraday.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis. 2 Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones. 3 (context botany English) in the same direction as the axis, parallel to the axis. n. 1 (context ornithology English) A flight feather that appears between the primary and secondary on some birds. 2 (context dentistry English) A plane parallel to the surface of a tooth.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation
relating to or attached to the axis; "axial angle" [syn: axile]
situated on or along or in the direction of an axis
Wikipedia
Axial may refer:
- In anatomy, to one of the anatomical directions describing relationships in an animal body
- In chemistry, to an axial position or location of a group, ligand, or bond in chemical substance, especially cyclic or metallic.
- In geography, to the Axial Seamount and submarine volcano off of Oregon
- Axial, Colorado, a ghost town
- In geometry, to:
:* a geometric term of location
:* an axis of rotation
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.