minor axis

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   the shorter or shortest axis of an ellipse or ellipsoid

   Broaderaxis

   Partssemiminor axis

Questions about minor axis

What does minor axis mean?

minor axis means "the shorter or shortest axis of an ellipse or ellipsoid".

Is minor axis a common word?

minor axis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.