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coaxial

[ koh-ak-see-uhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Also co·ax·al [] having a common axis or coincident axes.
Geometry.
1. (of a set of circles) having the property that each pair of circles has the same radical axis.
2. (of planes) intersecting in a straight line.
(of a loudspeaker) having two or more cones with their centers mounted on the same axis.

coaxial

/ kəʊˈæksəl; kəʊˈæksɪəl /

Origin of coaxial¹

First recorded in 1880–85; co- + axial

Inside this anchor tube ran the thick coaxial cable that fed three-phase electric power from the atomic pile to the ship.

Power for the innumerable huge coaxial snakes was several times inadequate, which problem no one, of course, had foreseen.

Let a solid circular sectioned cylinder of radius R1 be enclosed in a coaxial tube of inner radius R2.

The same arrangement can be supplied to a pair of coaxial cylinders.

The probe looked like an aluminum pipe but was really a special tube built like a segment of coaxial cable.

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