(1) a straight line, real or imaginary that passes through a body and about which the body may or actually does rotate; (2) geometric guidelines used to place a coordinate that determines knife or tool paths for plotters and routers
An imaginary line around which the elements of a painting, sculpture or building are organized; the direction and focus of these elements establishes the axis
is an implied line which runs through a work, usually the center, to which other elements in the work refer; an implied division of space producing balance and movement of pictorial elements
the center around which something rotates the 2nd cervical vertebra; serves as a pivot for turning the head a straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions in World War II the alliance of Germany and Italy in 1936 which later included Japan and other nations; "the Axis opposed the Allies in World War II"
The axis is an imaginary alignment line upon which a fraction line is centered Often, operators as well as characters that can stretch, such as parentheses, brackets, braces, summation signs etc, are centered on the axis, and are symmetric with respect to it