Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis. [1913 Webster]
"To take on an axial, and not an equatorial, direction." [1913 Webster]
Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones. [1913 Webster]

Axial line (Magnetism), the line taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other. Faraday.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

axial, adj.
1 forming or belonging to an axis.
2 round an axis (axial rotation; axial symmetry).

Derivative

axiality () n. axially adv.

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THESAURUS

axial

ascending, back, back-flowing, backward, centermost, central, centralized, centric, centroidal, centrosymmetric, concentrated, descending, down-trending, downward, drifting, flowing, fluent, flying, geocentric, going, gyrational, gyratory, key, middle, middlemost, midmost, mounting, omphalic, passing, pivotal, plunging, progressive, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, sideward, sinking, soaring, streaming, umbilical, up-trending, upward

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ROGET THESAURUS

axial

Centrality

N centrality, centricalness, center, middle, focus, core, kernel, nucleus, nucleolus, heart, pole axis, bull's eye, nave, navel, umbilicus, backbone, marrow, pith, vertebra, vertebral column, hotbed, concentration, centralization, symmetry, center of gravity, center of pressure, center of percussion, center of oscillation, center of buoyancy, metacenter, central, centrical, middle, azygous, axial, focal, umbilical, concentric, middlemost, rachidian, spinal, vertebral, middle, midst, centrally.

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