Meaning

4 senses
  1. (not comparable)Having two axes.

    zweiachsig

    having two axes

  2. (not comparable)Having two axes of rotation and two planes of symmetry (e.g. having the shape of a spheroid)

  3. (not comparable)Along two axes; e.g. in engineering, a shear or compression text of a material along two axes

    mapping the shape of the Earth onto a biaxial ellipsoid

  4. (not comparable)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.)

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Synonyms

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