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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.

To take on an

axial

, and not an equatorial, direction.

Nichol.

(Anat.)

Belonging to the axis of the body;

as, the

axial

skeleton

; or to the axis of any appendage or organ;

as, the

axial

bones

Axial line

(Magnetism)

the line taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other.

Faraday.