axial vs digit

axial

noun
  • A flight feather that appears between the primaries and secondaries on some birds. 

  • A plane parallel to the surface of a tooth. 

adj
  • Belonging to the axis of the body, or to the axis of any appendage or organ 

  • Relating to, resembling, or situated on an axis 

  • In the same direction as the axis, parallel to the axis. 

  • oriented close to the axis running through the centre of a cyclohexane ring, as opposed to equatorial. See w:Axial bond. 

digit

noun
  • Similar or similar-looking structures in other animals. 

  • The whole numbers from 0 to 9 and the Arabic numerals representing them, which are combined to represent base-ten numbers. 

  • A narrow extremity of the human hand or foot: a finger, thumb, or toe. 

  • A distinct symbol representing one of an arithmetic progression of numbers between 0 and the radix. 

  • ¹⁄₁₂ the apparent diameter of the sun or moon, (chiefly) as a measure of the totality of an eclipse. 

  • A unit of length notionally based upon the width of an adult human finger, standardized differently in various places and times, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot, now equivalent to about 1.9 cm. 

verb
  • To point at or point out with the finger. 

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