axis
US:/ˈæksɪs/
UK:/'æksɪs/
n.:
坐标轴；轴（旋转物体假想的中心线）；对称中心线（将物体平分为二）
网络:
轴线；枢椎；轴心
Word forms: (复数) axes
Examples
1.
Brilliant. Man's got mails in his heads. Let's put him in a giant magnet. You want films from three axis point and a C-arm in surgery.
真笨，这个人的头上有钉子，你要我们把他放到一个大磁铁里去，可以借助手术室中的“三轴点”和“c臂”
2.
After the encirclement of the German 9th Flak Division at Stalingrad it was the only Axis AA defence unit in the area.
在德国第9高炮师陷入斯大林格勒的包围圈后，罗马尼亚防空部队成为轴心国在该地区唯一的防空部队了。
3.
The moment of inertia about the x-axis is going to be obtained by integrating y squared times the mass element.
对于x轴的转动惯量，就可以由对y^2*质量元做积分得到。
4.
The earth seems to be at rest, but in fact it rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun.
地球好像是不动的，但实际上，它绕轴自传并围绕太阳运行。（不译“静止”）
5.
Wouldn't we feel the earth moving if it were spinning on its axis, or if it were travelling through space in an orbit around the sun?
如果地球是在绕地轴自转，或是绕着太阳公转，我们为何一点也感觉不到呢？
6.
Our earth turns on its axis once in every twenty-four hours, and goes also round the sun once a year.
地球围绕自己的轴线旋转为每24小时一周，即一天；地球环绕太阳一次的时间为一年。
7.
Of course, r goes all around the z axis, but I'm just doing a slice through one of these vertical half planes, fixing the value of theta.
当然，r可以围绕z轴转圈，但我只做了一个垂直的半平面，对于一个确定的θ来说。
8.
If you take this point here, it is going to go in a circle like that centered on the x-axis.
如果在这里取一个点，它会绕x轴上一点旋转。
9.
The magnitudes of the shearing stresses and bending stresses vary along the length of the beam and with distance from the neutral axis .
剪切应力和弯曲应力的大小沿着梁的长度方向发生变化，并与到中性轴的距离有关。
10.
The nine elements of the matrix are products of cosines of angles between the direction of a streamline at a point and the coordinate axis.
这矩阵的9个元素系一点的流线方向和座标轴之间夹角余弦的乘积。