I wrote:

>In the Dictionary, at least, axis is defined early on, if not used much.  

I'm wrong; it is used not-infrequently, and AFAICT at a quick glance, 
consistently.  "Dimension" appears to mean the magnitude of an axis.

In short.  Given a the shape of an arbitrary J noun (a rank-1 array of 
non-negative integers):  the rank is the length of that shape, an axis is an 
index into that shape (a member of  i.rank ), and a dimension is the value at 
that index.

-Dan
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