The phrase "as its axis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the central line or point around which something rotates or is organized.
Example: "The planet rotates as its axis, creating day and night cycles."
Alternatives: "around its axis" or "on its axis".
Indeed, with the presidential debate as its axis, the campaign appeared tonight to be collapsing in on itself and spinning more and more rapidly, not unlike one of the hurricanes that periodically twist through this state, laying waste to the landscape and leaving beleaguered residents wondering: Why?
With the wire tensioned to at least 1200 N, the proximal ring is still able to rotate around this wire as its axis.
When it processes uv i, it defines the 3D cone C u v i which uses uv i as its axis (as shown in Figure 2a), adds the link uv i, and marks all other links in C u v i as processed.
Great books take us where we haven't been, illuminate dark corners and leave our own familiar world subtly changed, as if its axis has been marginally tilted.
Because our planet wobbles a little on its axis as it spins, it means some days end up being a few milliseconds longer or shorter than others.
John Lowe, who works at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., explained that as Earth spins on its axis, it wobbles with the jerky motions of a poorly balanced car tire.
Their new show tilts your mind off its axis, as it dramatises the breakdown of Noble and Silver's relationship.
The seasons on Earth change because the planet is slightly tilted on its axis as it travels around the Sun.
That is because the planet, as it spins on its axis, is subject to the gravitational pull of both the Moon and the Sun.
We walked from the train station to the Turning Torso, a new apartment tower, designed by Santiago Calatrava, that twists ninety degrees on its axis as it rises fifty-four storintointhethe slate-gray sky, and drank Swedish Pilsners at the Torso Bar and Lounge.
Before such observations were possible, space-weather watchers were often surprised when active regions appeared from behind the sun as it rotated around its axis every four days or so.Helioseismology has also been used to probe below the surface.
