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Axis of revolution

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(Descriptive Geom.) a straight line about which some line or plane is revolved, so that the several points of the line or plane shall describe circles with their centers in the fixed line, and their planes perpendicular to it, the line describing a surface of revolution, and the plane a solid of revolution.
- Brewster.

See also: Axis



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