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Z-AXIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does z-axis mean?
• Z-AXIS (noun)
The noun Z-AXIS has 1 sense:
1. the third axis in a 3-dimensional coordinate system
Familiarity information: Z-AXIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The third axis in a 3-dimensional coordinate system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("z-axis" is a kind of...):
coordinate axis (one of the fixed reference lines of a coordinate system)
Context examples
A shape distortion in the z-axis resulting from the weighting function used in the helical interpolation algorithm.
(Helical Interpolation Artifact, NCI Thesaurus)
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