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In politics:
  • A parameter used in describing political spectrum
    Political spectrum
    A political spectrum is a way of modeling different political positions by placing them upon one or more geometric axes symbolizing independent political dimensions....

  • Axis of evil
    Axis of evil
    "Axis of evil" is a term coined by United States President George W. Bush in his State of the Union Address on January 29, 2002 in order to describe governments that he accused of helping terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction. President Bush named Iran, Iraq and North Korea...

    , U.S. President George W. Bush's description of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea
  • Axis powers
    Axis Powers
    The Axis powers comprised the countries that were opposed to the Allies during World War II. The three major Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—were part of a military alliance on the signing of the Tripartite Pact in September 1940, which officially founded the Axis powers...

     of World War II


In science:
  • Axis (anatomy)
    Axis (anatomy)
    In anatomy, the second cervical vertebra of the spine is named the axis or epistropheus.It forms the pivot upon which the first cervical vertebra , which carries the head, rotates....

    , the second cervical vertebra of the spine
  • Axis (genus)
    Axis (genus)
    Axis is a genus of deer, which consists of four species from South and Southeast Asia. The most famous are the chital and the hog deer. The two other species are the calamian deer and the bawean deer....

    , a genus of deer
  • Axis (Science Festival)
    Axis (Science Festival)
    Axis is a national level technical festival held at the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology in Nagpur, India. One of the largest technical festivals in India, the festival is organized annually at the end of the month of September...

    , an annual technical festival held in Nagpur, India
  • Axial tilt
    Axial tilt
    In astronomy, axial tilt is the angle between an object's rotational axis and a line perpendicular to its orbital plane. The angle is measured between the line perpendicular to object's orbital plane and object's rotational axis passing through north pole at which the planet appears to rotate...

    , the axis on which the earth rotates
  • Optical axis
    Optical axis
    An optical axis is a line along which there is some degree of rotational symmetry in an optical system such as a camera lens or microscope.The optical axis is an imaginary line that defines the path along which light propagates through the system...

    , in optics


In mathematics:
  • Axis of rotation, line around which a three-dimensional object rotates
  • Axis of symmetry, a line that divides a two-dimensional object into identical shapes
  • X and Y axes, or X, Y, and Z axes, perpendicular lines used in the Cartesian coordinate system
    Cartesian coordinate system
    A Cartesian coordinate system specifies each point uniquely in a plane by a pair of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances from the point to two fixed perpendicular directed lines, measured in the same unit of length....

  • Informally, by extension, the line generated by a basis vector
    Basis (linear algebra)
    In linear algebra, a basis is a set of vectors that, in a linear combination, can represent every vector in a given vector space or free module, and such that no element of the set can be represented as a linear combination of the others...

     in linear algebra


In music:
  • Axis: Bold as Love
    Axis: Bold as Love
    Axis: Bold as Love is the second studio album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Under pressure from their record company to follow-up the successful debut of their May 1967 album Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love was released on Track Records in the UK in December 1967...

    , album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Axis Percussion, a US manufacturer of drum pedals and hardware
  • Axis Records
    Axis Records
    Axis Records may refer to:* A record label which is operated by Jeff Mills which releases most of his work* The former name of 4AD, a record label which was started in 1979 as Axis Records by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, but quickly renamed when it was discovered that Axis Records already...

    , the name of several music labels
  • Axis system
    Axis system
    In music, the axis system is a system of analysis originating in the work of Ernő Lendvai, which he developed in his analysis of the music of Béla Bartók....

    , a system of harmonic analysis


In fiction:
  • Axis (novel)
    Axis (novel)
    Axis is a science fiction novel by author Robert Charles Wilson, published in 2007. It is a direct sequel to Wilson's Hugo Award-winning Spin, published two years earlier. The novel was a finalist for the 2008 John W...

    , a science-fiction novel by Robert Charles Wilson
  • Axis, an asteroid in the Gundam anime universe
  • Axis Zeon, inhabitants of the asteroid Axis in the Gundam anime universe
  • Axis Chemicals
    Axis Chemicals
    Axis Chemicals is a fictional chemical plant in the first Batman film and in DC Comics. It is famous for being the plant where the Red Hood, the man who would become the Joker fell into a vat of toxic waste, dyeing his hair green, his skin chalk-white, and his mouth stretched into a hideously...

    , is a fictional chemical plant in the first Batman film and in DC Comics.


In information technology:
  • Apache Axis
    Apache Axis
    Apache Axis is an open source, XML based Web service framework. It consists of a Java and a C++ implementation of the SOAP server, and various utilities and APIs for generating and deploying Web service applications. Using Apache Axis, developers can create interoperable, distributed computing...

    , an open source Web service framework from the Apache Software Foundation
  • Axis Communications
    Axis Communications
    Axis Communications AB is a manufacturer of IT equipment, mostly known for its print servers and network cameras. According to its annual report 2007, it has sold over 1,000,000 network cameras, thus claiming to be the world leader in that market, and also ranking third in the world in the...

    , a Swedish manufacturer of IT equipment