paraxial
adjective
paraxial is an adjective meaning “Lateral to the neural tube” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-R-A-X-I-A-L, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does paraxial mean?
adjective
- 1
Lateral to the neural tube.
paraxial mesoderm
- 2
Near an optical axis.
paraxial radiation
- 3
Parallel to one or more axes of the coordinate system.
paraxial rectangle
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paraxial?
Paraxial appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does paraxial come from?
From par- + axial.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).