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minor axis

noun

Mathematics.
  1. the axis of an ellipse that is perpendicular to the major axis at a point equidistant from the foci.


minor axis

noun

  1. the shorter or shortest axis of an ellipse or ellipsoid
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Origin of minor axis1

First recorded in 1860–65
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A shocking shift of the symphony’s D minor axis, this became a paradoxically fearsome eruption of D major.

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The two axes of the ellipse are the major axis and the minor axis, and the two axes of the hyperbola are the transverse axis and the conjugate axis.

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The minor axis or greatest breadth is about one-half the major axis or length.

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In the case of extensive operations the surface must be considered as a compressed ellipsoid of rotation, whose minor axis coincides with the earth’s axis, and whose compression, flattening, or ellipticity is about 1/298.

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A and B are the foci, D the centre, EF the major axis, GH the minor axis, and the fraction DA/DE the eccentricity of the ellipse.

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