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Axis 


The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name). 


A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged. 


A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center. 


The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body. 


The second vertebra of the neck, or vertebra dentata. 


Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon. 


One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded. 


The primary or secondary central line of any design. 

 Elemer in Redmond.
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---------- Forwarded Message ----------
On May 10, Ming Mar wrote:

When used by tango teachers from Argentina, "energy"
means tensing the muscles.

On May 10 Michael Figart II wrote:

"Energy" is not tensing the muscles. The way I look at
it, the term "energy" is generally used in reference
to a highly focused connection.


The question is, said Alice, whether you can make words mean so many
different things. When words like energy, or axis, or whatever, are used
vaguely and incorrectly, then their definitions may be taken to be whatever
the speaker chooses them to be, and they cease to have any meaning whatever,
and we end up in arguments that never converge ("Energy is tensing the
muscles. No it isn't! Yes it is! ...")

Terms like energy already have EXACT meanings. Teachers should take the time
to learn them, and learn them correctly. Neither definition above is even
remotely correct enough to have unambiguous meaning, and hence they have
limited value as teaching tools. If experienced dancers can't get within 180
degrees of the same answer, what is a beginner to do?



Evan Wallace
Tangoing.com 
evan@tangoing.com 
www.tangoing.com


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