axial

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Meanwhile, Mercedes AMG recently demonstrated a concept car with a novel, axial flux, 1,000+ horsepower electric motor that weighs a mere 28 pounds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

According to NASA, every planet in our solar system has an axial tilt, but some are more pronounced than others.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024

First, planets vary in their axial tilts: Venus's axis of rotation is tilted by just three degrees, so there's much less seasonal difference between the Venusian summer and winter solstices than those on Earth.

From National Geographic • Dec. 19, 2023

That represents Earth’s axial tilt, which astronomers call its obliquity, relative to the plane of its nearly circular orbit around the sun.

From Scientific American • Sep. 22, 2023

But the author was strangely silent on such details–indeed, silent on everything but anticlines, synclines, axial faults, and the like.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson