Axial
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Axial may mean:
  • Along the same line as an axis of rotation in geometry
  • A type of modal frame
    Modal frame
    In music a melodic mode or modal frame is one of, "a number of types permeating and unifying African, European, and American song" and melody. "Mode" and "frame" are used in this context interchangeably. Melodic modes allow melodies which are not chord-based or determined by the harmony but...

     in music
  • One of several anatomical directions in an animal body
  • Axial age
    Axial Age
    German philosopher Karl Jaspers coined the term the axial age or axial period to describe the period from 800 to 200 BC, during which, according to Jaspers, similar revolutionary thinking appeared in India, China and the Occident...

    , the period from 800 to 200 BC in China, India and the western world
  • Axial Seamount
    Axial Seamount
    Axial Seamount is a seamount and submarine volcano located on the Juan de Fuca Ridge approximately west of Cannon Beach, Oregon. The seamount, high, stands above the average height of the Juan de Fuca Ridge...

    , a seamount and submarine volcano off the coast of Oregon
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