Meanings
adjectivebiaxial (not comparable)
- not comparableHaving two axes.
- not comparableastronomyHaving two axes of rotation and two planes of symmetry (e.g. having the shape of a spheroid)
- not comparableAlong 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
- not comparableHaving 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.)
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving two axes
Similar
biaxalbiaxate
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
- Proto-Indo-European*dwi-
- Proto-Italic*dwi-
- Latinbi-
- Englishbi-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂eǵ-?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂eḱs-
- Proto-Italic*aksis
- Latinaxis
- Englishaxis
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishaxial
- Englishbiaxial
Translations
Catalan biaxial
- biaxialhaving two axes
French biaxial, biaxe
- biaxialhaving two axes
- biaxehaving two axes
German zweiachsig
- zweiachsighaving two axes
Irish dé-aiseach
- dé-aiseachhaving two axes
Malay dwipaksi
- dwipaksihaving two axes
Polish dwuosiowy
- dwuosiowyhaving two axes
Cite this entry
APA
biaxial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/biaxial
MLA
“biaxial.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/biaxial. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “biaxial,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/biaxial.
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