coaxis

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noun

One of the directional motion vectors perpendicular to a cocone.

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Meanings

nouncoaxis (plural coaxes)

plural coaxes

  1. mathematicsOne of the directional motion vectors perpendicular to a cocone.

    Now draw the characteristic triangle mentioned above, […] of which the hypotenuse is a portion of the tangent or the element of the arc, and the sides are parallel to the axis and the coaxis.

    2008, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, J. M. Child, The Early Mathematical Manuscripts of Leibniz, page 43

Origin

From co- + axis.

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