biaxial
/baɪˈæksiəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.76 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
4
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having two axes of rotation and two planes of symmetry (e.g. having the shape of a spheroid)
adj
Along two axes; e.g. in engineering, a shear or compression text of a material along two axes
adj
Having a value in two perpendicular directions. (In solid mechanics, it generally means that normal stresses exist in two of the possible three directions, though not necessarily equal in sign or magnitude.)
Example Sentences
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi-bor. English bi- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-der. Proto-Italic *aksis Latin axisbor. English axis Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English axial English biaxial From bi- + axial.