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I see a lot of ambiguous explanations of degrees of freedom on the web and I need clarification. Suppose there is an object in space that can move freely along either the x,y, or z axis. Do we say it has six degrees of freedom because it can move along the x-axis one way or the opposite way, and one way or the other way on the y-axis and one way or the other way on the z axis or do we just say it has 3 degrees of freedom relating to the number of axes of motion?