Usually means: Shortest diameter of an ellipse.
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  1. minor axis: Merriam-Webster
  2. minor axis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. minor axis: Collins English Dictionary
  4. minor axis: Vocabulary.com
  5. minor axis: Wiktionary
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  7. minor axis: Dictionary.com
  8. Minor axis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. minor axis: Rhymezone
  10. minor axis: FreeDictionary.org
  11. minor axis: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. Minor Axis: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. minor axis: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (minor axis)

▸ noun:  The shortest diameter of an ellipse, which bisects the major axis at a right angle.

Similar:
semimajor axis, major axis, semiminor axis, semi-major axis, conjugate axis, transverse, axle, semiaxis, radical axis, optic axis, more...

Opposite:
major axis, horizontal axis, x-axis

Phrases:
semi minor axis, more...

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Similar:
semimajor axis, major axis, semiminor axis, semi-major axis, conjugate axis, transverse, axle, semiaxis, radical axis, optic axis, more...

Opposite:
major axis, horizontal axis, x-axis

Phrases:
semi minor axis, more...



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