axial

Meanings

Adjective

• Relating to, resembling, or situated on an axis
• Belonging to the axis of the body, or to the axis of any appendage or organ
• In the same direction as the axis, parallel to the axis.
• oriented close to the axis running through the centre of a cyclohexane ring, as opposed to equatorial. See w:Axial bond.

Noun

• A flight feather that appears between the primaries and secondaries on some birds.
• A plane parallel to the surface of a tooth.

Origin

• axis + -al