MAJOR AXIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: major axes, major-axes   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The longest axis of an ellipse or ellipsoid; passes through the two foci

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("major axis" is a kind of...):

axis (a straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions)

Meronyms (parts of "major axis"):

semimajor axis (one-half the major axis of an ellipse; the distance from the center of an ellipse to one end)

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