axisymmetric
See also: axi-symmetric
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editaxisymmetric (comparative more axisymmetric, superlative most axisymmetric)
- Exhibiting symmetry around an axis; exhibiting cylindrical symmetry.
- 2002, Chang-Hwan Lee, Hŏn-yŏng Chang (editors), Current High-energy Emission Around Black Holes, page 36:
- The 'Blandford-Znajek' (BZ) black hole magnetospheric power extraction process was one of the first (1977) analytic attempts to define a general relativistic theory for axisymmetric, stationary, ideal-MHD, BH magnetospheres.
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editexhibiting symmetry around an axis
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Further reading
edit- Poinsot's ellipsoid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia