minor axis in English

noun
1
the shorter axis of an ellipse that is perpendicular to its major axis.
In the work On conoids and spheroids Archimedes examines paraboloids of revolution, hyperboloids of revolution, and spheroids obtained by rotating an ellipse either about its major axis or about its minor axis .

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

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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.