major axis in English

noun
1
the longer axis of an ellipse, passing through its foci.
The major axis of the ellipse will be along the East-West line and the minor axis will be North-South.

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1. Line of Apsides definition, the major axis of an elliptical orbit

2. Line of Apsides definition is - the major axis of an elliptical orbit.

3. A Bloodstain where the major axis and minor axis are equal lengths.

4. The major axis of an elliptic orbit is referred to as the line of Apsides.

5. The line of Apsides, connecting the two points, is the major axis of the orbit

6. The actual semi-major axis differs by 19 km and the actual mass is 8.6×10−12 of Saturn's.

7. Particles (A): Acicular metal oxide particles which have a major-axis length of 0.2-5 μm and an aspect ratio (major-axis length/minor-axis length) of 5 or higher and which have a photo-thermal conversion ability and do not have magnetic properties.

8. Ryugu orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.96–1.41 au once every 16 months (474 days; semi-major axis of 1.19 au).

9. In order to guarantee the characteristics of frozen orbit, in-plane orbit control needs to adjust the semi-major axis, eccentricity, argument of perigee simultaneously.

10. Powder for sublayer of coating type magnetic recording medium, comprising flat acicular iron oxide particles of 20 to 200 nm average major axis length, wherein a minor axis cross section made in the direction perpendicular to the major axis has a long width and a short width, the minor axis cross section ratio of long width to short width being larger than 1.3 substantially uniformly in the direction of major axis, which powder exhibits a specific surface area, measured by the BET method, of 30 to 100 m2/g.

11. Characteristics (Taken from Bloodstain Pattern Analysis Third Edition With an Introduction to Crime Scene Reconstruction, Third Edition): A stain where the minor axis is narrower than the major axis

12. ‘All equations are fitted by the reduced major axis algorithm to the logarithms of the original data; the data were then transformed to their Antilogarithms to return to the original units.’

13. The line of Apsides, connecting the two points, is the major axis of the orbit.The point nearest the focus is the pericentre, or periapsis, and that farthest from it is the apocentre, or apoapsis.

14. An ellipsoidal reflector (M1, P) having primary and secondary focal points (F1, F2) along the major axis (8) is illuminated by a light source (S) and subtended by an acceptance cone (16) of the target (T).

15. The methods involve tilting the avian shell egg so that the major axis of the egg is from about 10 to 180 degrees from the vertically upright position, so that the allantois pools under the uppermost portion of the egg shell.

16. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory defines a main-belt asteroid as an asteroid with a semi-major axis (average distance from the Sun) of more than 2 AU but less than 3.2 AU, and a perihelion (closest approach distance to the Sun) of no less than 1.6 AU.

17. The egg may be oriented with a major axis at an angle from about 10 to 45 degrees from vertical thereby causing the allantois (14) to pool and the allantoic sac (12) to expand immediately below the air sac (11) on the downward side of the egg with injection occuring vertically downward through the air sac (11) or from an angle below the air sac (11).