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English Dictionary: Axial by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
axial
adj
  1. of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation
  2. relating to or attached to the axis; "axial angle"
    Synonym(s): axile, axial
  3. situated on or along or in the direction of an axis
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Axial \Ax"i*al\, a.
      1. 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.
  
      2. (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.
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