coaxis

English

Etymology

co- +‎ axis

Noun

coaxis (plural coaxes)

1. (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.