noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Earth’s axis
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Over thousands of years, the direction of Earth’s axis slowly changes.
vertical axis
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the vertical axis of a graph
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
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Light is most intense along the central axis of each fan.
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The central axis of the Space Station, with its docking arms extended, was now slowly swimming toward them.
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The two ribbons are most sensitive to sounds arriving from forty-five degrees on either side of the central axis .
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I decided to use the directionality and linearity of the central axis .
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It is rather as though there is a central axis , around which the gemstone of beauty is formed.
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The central axis of their variation is their degree of autonomy.
crystallographic
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These peaks, together with a crystallographic twofold axis , were interpreted as possibly resulting from 52 point-group symmetry.
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Because bond strengths may differ along the various crystallographic axes , hardness may also vary slightly in direction.
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Under these conditions, the scattered flux is minimal along the crystallographic axes .
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This results in scattering minima along the crystallographic axes and maxima at intermediate axes.
horizontal
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Along the horizontal axis are measured the supply of and demand for labour in the ith market, and respectively.
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Concern for production is illustrated on the horizontal axis .
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The serious aerial photographer will be looking for adjustment through vertical and horizontal axes so that the field of view is precise.
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A leader with a rating of nine on the horizontal axis has a maximum concern for production.
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The horizontal axis has the most frequently preserved part of the bone, namely the distal humerus and proximal femur.
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On the horizontal axis is 0, the ideal variety of consumers.
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However, as the frequency was only doubled in the horizontal axis the benefits were lost if you printed landscape format text!
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As they use much thinner weft than warp strands, more knots are tied on the vertical than the horizontal axis .
long
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The orientation of the long axis of an elliptical borehole is displayed when the break-out criteria are satisfied.
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A consistent orientation of the long axis towards 40-60 degrees east was found.
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The long axis of the bar is vertical and the dotted lines indicate our line of sight to the Galactic Centre.
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In the prognathous head the long axis is horizontal, or slightly inclined ventrally, while the mouthparts are anterior in position.
main
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Translated into actual streets, this meant the creation of two main axes , one North-South and the other East-West.
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Its raw material and main axis is information.
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These were mainly disposed along the main axis of the monument, with a number clustered on platforms raised on either side.
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It may even turn out that these growth factors are the signals from the organizer which specify the main body axis .
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Very roughly we can characterise perhaps four main axes to this debate.
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Entering, you are drawn down the main axis by curves.
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Equator: The plane through the middle of the cell, at right angles to the main axis of the spindle.
major
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Whereas the extremities of a parabola become parallel to its major axis , the asymptotes of a hyperbola cross one another.
vertical
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They are established by the extension of any of the budget segments backwards to the right-side vertical axis .
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Concern for people is illustrated on the vertical axis .
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The serious aerial photographer will be looking for adjustment through vertical and horizontal axes so that the field of view is precise.
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People become more important to the leader as his or her rating progresses up the vertical axis .
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In Fig. 11-7 the wage rates for labour in the two localities are shown on the vertical axis .
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A leader with a rating of nine on the vertical axis has maximum concern for people.
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The vertical axis to the same scale represents elapsed time and the diagonal is drawn in as shown.
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The real wage is measured along the vertical axis and labour services are measured along the horizontal axis.
■ NOUN
spin
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Its distance from the planet's spin axis must therefore be decreasing.
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Radar observations have also shown that the inclination of the spin axis is less than 3°.
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This shows the simple case of a spin axis which is perpendicular to the line of sight.
■ VERB
measure
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The real wage is measured along the vertical axis and labour services are measured along the horizontal axis.
rotate
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The Earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours.
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In theory, the model should rotate about its vertical axis until the control is released and then stop.
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The series is set on a giant space station shaped like a cylinder rotating about an axis along its length.
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Pictures can be rotated about any axis .
show
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In Fig. 11-7 the wage rates for labour in the two localities are shown on the vertical axis .
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Graphics are generally more readable when explanatory variables are shown along a horizontal axis and outcome variables vertically.
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Reference to the column of the character table showing the Cartesian axis directions then gives the symmetry species directly.
turn
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Without this we would see a changing face as the Moon turned on its axis .
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The earth was doing what it always did, turning on its axis .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An outer cylinder of platinum was used as the anode, with a rod of palladium on its axis as the cathode.
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Concern for production is illustrated on the horizontal axis .
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In Fig. 11-7 the wage rates for labour in the two localities are shown on the vertical axis .
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Muscle strips were mounted with the longitudinal axis parallel to the direction of the circular muscle bundles.
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The Earth spins on an axis , creating north and south poles.
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These edges can be considered mutually exclusive interpretations of some stretch of the utterance defined by the z and x axis .
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This hypothesis generates an infinite set of indifference curves which are convex to the L axis .