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axiom
/ˈæk.si.əm/
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AK-see-um: the x sounds like ks.
The first vowel is the short a of “cat.” Keep the ee and the following light uh connected while leaving the stress on AK.
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“The proof begins with a familiar axiom.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does axiom mean?
noun
- A seemingly self-evident or necessary truth which is based on assumption; a principle or proposition which cannot actually be proved or disproved.
- A fundamental assumption that serves as a basis for deduction of theorems; a postulate (sometimes distinguished from postulates as being universally applicable, whereas postulates are particular to a certain science or context).
- An established principle in some artistic practice or science that is universally received.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈæk.si.əm/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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I believe it to be infinitely the truer axiom of the two that innocence can look like guilt.
It is a military axiom not to advance uphill against the enemy, nor to oppose him when he comes downhill.
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Volleying is a science based on the old geometric axiom that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points.
To those that contend upon presupposition we must, on the contrary, presuppose to them the same axiom upon which the dispute is.
Is it impossible to know that one and two are equal to three, but by virtue of this, or some such axiom, viz.