| 单词 | principal axis | 
| 释义 | principal axis [`prin·sǝ·pǝl `ak·sǝs]  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 1. 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.  2. For a conic, a straight line that passes through the midpoints of all the chords perpendicular to it.  3. 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 See <<optic axis>>  | 
	
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