Axis of revolution

(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

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

Mentioned in

bearing
eccentric
eccentrically
ellipsoid of revolution
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Hyperboloid of revolution
meridian
thrust bearing

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