Talk:Axis

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Question of understanding[edit]

"In mathematics, an axis is a straight line around which a geometric figure can be rotated."

How can anything rotate around a straight line? Is this a typo or am I ignorant?-Hyacinth 00:53, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm afraid you're ignorant. Imagine a spinning top (also imagine that it's not wobbling or doing anything fancy). It's rotating about a line passing from its tip through its handle. --Smack (talk) 19:30, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

This could also describe rolling a top like a wheel around a dowel. Hyacinth 21:07, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Interwiki link[edit]

I've moved an interwiki link (cs, I recall) from this page to Axis of rotation. I don't speak Czech, but I do speak enough Russian to know that it belongs there and not here, so please don't try to reinstate it. --Smack (talk) 22:02, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Disambiguation cleanup[edit]

Article has been cleaned up the tag has been removed. Mahanchian 13:47, 19 February 2006 (UTC) Ok will do, and you are right it doesn't belong there —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.120.37.12 (talk) 17:36, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]