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principal axis [′prin·sə·pəl ′ak·səs]

(crystallography)

The longest axis in a crystal.

(engineering acoustics)

A reference direction for angular coordinates used in describing the directional characteristics of a transducer; it is usually an axis of structural symmetry or the direction of maximum response.

(mathematics)

One of a set of perpendicular axes such that a quadratic function can be written as a sum of squares of coordinates referred to these axes.

For a conic, a straight line that passes through the midpoints of all the chords perpendicular to it.

For a quadric surface, the intersection of two principal planes.

(mechanics)

One of three perpendicular axes in a rigid body such that the products of inertia about any two of them vanish.

(optics)

optic axis

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