biaxial

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Having two axes.
Having two axes of rotation and two planes of symmetry (e.g. having the shape of a spheroid)
Along two axes; e.g. in engineering, a shear or compression text of a material along two axes
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.)

/baɪˈæksiəl/

biaxial

From bi- + axial.

coaxial monoaxial uniaxial triaxial

biaxiality biaxially equibiaxial

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