"biaxial" meaning in English

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          "sense": "having two axes",
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          "text": "mapping the shape of the Earth onto a biaxial ellipsoid"
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        "Having a value in two perpendicular directions. (In solid mechanics, it generally means that normal stresses exist in two of the possible three directions, though not necessarily equal in sign or magnitude.)"
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      "sense": "having two axes",
      "word": "biaxial"
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    {
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      "sense": "having two axes",
      "word": "biaxe"
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      "sense": "having two axes",
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      "sense": "having two axes",
      "word": "dé-aiseach"
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      "sense": "having two axes",
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