| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. |
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| In geometry, a straight line about which an object may rotate or that divides an object into symmetrical halves. | 1 |
| ‡ The axis of the Earth is an imaginary line drawn through the North Pole and the South Pole. | 2 |
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| | | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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