biaxial

Adjective

having two axes
- "biaxial crystals"

Adj

Having two axes.
Having two axes of rotation and two planes of symmetry (e.g. having the shape of a spheroid)
Along two axes; e.g. in engineering, a shear or compression text of a material along two axes
Having 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.)

Origin / Etymology

From bi- + axial.

Synonyms

biaxal, biaxate

Scrabble Score: 16

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Words With Friends Score: 18

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