Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having only one axis.
- adjective Of, relating to, or affecting one axis.
- adjective Having one direction along which double refraction of light does not take place. Used of a crystal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having but one optical axis, or axis of double refraction. Iceland spar is a uniaxial crystal. See
refraction , and cut underinterference . - In biology, having one main axis to which the other axes are subordinate; growing lengthwise.
- In botany, having a single axis, as when the primary stem of a plant does not branch and terminates in a flower.
- Monaxon, as a sponge-spicule.
- noun A uniaxial crystal.
- noun Also
uniaxal .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Crystallog.) Having but one optic axis, or line of no double refraction.
- adjective (Biol.) Having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane; -- opposed to
multiaxial .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a single
axis - adjective botany Having a single
stem , with nobranches , that terminates in aflower
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Examples
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There are two varieties in which the movement is uniaxial, that is to say, all movements take place around one axis.
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The engineers embedded sensors called uniaxial and triaxial accelerometers inside a wind turbine blade as the blade was being built.
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The engineers embedded sensors called uniaxial and triaxial accelerometers inside a wind turbine blade as the blade was being built.
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The engineers embedded sensors called uniaxial and triaxial accelerometers inside a wind turbine blade as the blade was being built.
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The engineers embedded sensors called uniaxial and triaxial accelerometers inside a wind turbine blade as the blade was being built.
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The engineers embedded sensors called uniaxial and triaxial accelerometers inside a wind turbine blade as the blade was being built.
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One problem encountered in our project is those standard mechanical tests such as uniaxial tension and pure shear just simply can't be performed on a single cell.
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One problem encountered in our project is those standard mechanical tests such as uniaxial tension and pure shear just simply can't be performed on a single cell.
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Starting out with a relatively simple Silicon-Germanium epitaxy, we are looking at uniaxial compression and stretching for PMOS and NMOS devices, respectively, to speed up the currents and reduce power consumption at the same time.
CPUs and heat 2005
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In uniaxial crystals the number of absorption spectra is reduced to two.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 Various
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