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['æksis]plural - axes; noun1) (the real or imaginary line on which a thing turns (as the axis of the earth, from North Pole to South Pole, around which the earth turns).) os2) (a fixed line used as a reference, as in a graph: He plotted the temperatures on the horizontal axis.) os* * *plural axes [aeksis, aeksi:z]noun osvertical axis geometry višina
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