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plural coaxes
(mathematics) One of the directional motion vectors perpendicular to a cocone. quotations examples
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.
2008, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, J. M. Child, The Early Mathematical Manuscripts of Leibniz, page 43