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- noun A group of states sponsoring terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction, originally defined as including
Iran ,Iraq , andNorth Korea . - noun astrophysics A preferential axis which may have shaped the development of the
universe , sometimes abbreviated AOE.
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First used by President George W. Bush in the State of the Union Address in 2002 . Possibly from a historical analogy to the German-Italian-Japanese Axis. Extended to astrophysics by João Magueijo in 2005.
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