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MAJOR AXIS
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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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