axis

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What makes this especially frustrating from a neuroscience perspective is that the gut-brain axis is one of the most pharmacologically sensitive systems in the body.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2026

Schrödinger's definitions rely on how colors are positioned relative to this axis, yet he never mathematically defined it.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

Spins are tricks that rotate on the horizontal axis, so turning in circles.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

It is the latest sign of the growing cooperation between Rome and Berlin, which is putting a question mark on the traditional France-Germany axis.

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

The following twenty-five-word phrase is splayed along a diagonal axis, indicating that it is almost entirely right-branching: flattish trees, each composed of simpler phrases joined side by side.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker