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multiaxial

multiaxial

7.5
Having more than one axis for movement, like a shoulder joint
  • adjective
  • /ˌmʌltiˈæksɪəl/
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  • Using a multiaxial approach, researchers can analyze how multiple factors interact in psychological assessments.
  • multiaxial system

Examples

  • The central city and suburbs will be developed to enhance their connectivity and emphasize a "multi-level, multi-centric, and multiaxial" urban layout pattern.

    Academic text (2006)
  • It is a reasonable concern how the proposed model performs in more complex loading conditions that involve heterogeneous and multiaxial stress distributions.

    Academic text (2018)
  • For each case, a multiaxial taxonomy for input into the quantitative analysis may be used.

    Academic text (2007)
  • The claim that a blinded "multiaxial psychiatric interview" was able to show that only the CBT-treated subjects were diagnosed as free of social phobia 12 months after treatment is unconvincing.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Indeed, the Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association membership in 2004 passed an action paper calling for the elimination of the multiaxial system, noting that there is no evidence that most practitioners make use of it when they are free not to (Peele et al., 2004).

    Academic text (2010)
  • Under the normal tensile stress criterion, the analytical solution is reported for a microcrack with its spatial orientation in uniform distribution under arbitrary multiaxial loading.

    Academic text (2018)
  • One of the most prominent examples was the introduction in DSM-III of a multiaxial system for evaluation, with the explicitly stated goal of improving diagnostic practices by ensuring that attention be given to certain types of disorders, aspects of the environment, and areas of functioning that might be overlooked (American Psychiatric Association, 1980, p. 23).

    Academic text (2010)
  • His research has led to a greater understanding of continuum and micromechanical elastic or elastoplastic damage models and their effects (stiffness and strength reduction) on concrete, metals, and advanced composites under multiaxial loadings.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The engineer designed a multiaxial structure to withstand various forces acting from different directions.

  • In materials science, multiaxial testing helps determine how components perform under different types of stress.

How Many Axes

multiaxial
7.5
biaxial
  • Specialized
8.4
uniaxial
  • Specialized
8.1

Surface Forms

multiaxial positive

Morphology

multiaxial = axial (transparent) = multi + axis + al

The word is formed transparently by adding multi- to axial, and axial itself is a regular adjective built from axis + -al.

Etymology

The word multiaxial breaks into multi- 'many' and axis 'a line around which something turns', like the axle under a wheel. So multiaxial means having 'more than one' axis, which is why a multiaxial joint or machine can move in several directions.