semiminor axis

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   one-half the minor axis of an ellipse

   Broaderaxis

   Part ofminor axis

Questions about semiminor axis

What does semiminor axis mean?

semiminor axis means "one-half the minor axis of an ellipse".

Is semiminor axis a common word?

semiminor 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.