coaxis
English
Etymology
co- + axis
Noun
coaxis (plural coaxes)
- (mathematics) One of the directional motion vectors perpendicular to a cocone.
- 2008, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, J. M. Child, The Early Mathematical Manuscripts of Leibniz (page 43)
- Now draw the characteristic triangle mentioned above, […] of which the hypotenuse is a portion of the tangent or the element of the arc, and the sides are parallel to the axis and the coaxis.
- 2008, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, J. M. Child, The Early Mathematical Manuscripts of Leibniz (page 43)