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concentric
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Word definitions for concentric in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concentric \Con*cen"tric\, Concentrical \Con*cen"tric*al\, a. Having a common center, as circles of different size, one within another. Concentric circles upon the surface of the water. --Sir I. Newton. Concentrical rings like those of an onion. --Arbuthnot. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In geometry , two or more objects are said to be concentric , coaxal , or coaxial when they share the same center or axis . Circles , regular polygons and regular polyhedra , and spheres may be concentric to one another (sharing the same center point), ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN circle ▪ The landowners lived centrally, and around them, in concentric circles as it were, lived the working people. ▪ Instead, there was a series of concentric circles , surrounding a small black disk. ▪ The targets ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context geometry English) Having a common center. 2 (context physiology English) (of a motion) in the direction of contraction of a muscle. (''E.g.'' extension of the lower arm via the elbow joint while contracting the triceps and other elbow extensor ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having a common center; "concentric rings" [syn: concentrical , homocentric ] [ant: eccentric ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Middle French concentrique , from Medieval Latin concentricus , from com- "together" (see com- ) + centrum "circle, center" (see center (n.)).
Usage examples of concentric.
Arrange vegetables, almonds, and tofu strips in concentric circles around the hummus.
The membranes formed nested, concentric families, Daliesque onion layers-each series culminating in a bubble around a single spark, or occasionally a group of two or three.
But only another unbuttoning from the arrangement of straps was required, and the hoops collapsed around her feet in a ring of concentric circles.
I placed the mortarboard on my head and walked back and forth in front of the mirror, watching the way it sat foolishly uncommitted to my skull, the way it called cruel attention to my plump cheeks, the hopeless wobble of my concentric chins.
Second Oecumene had several hundred small artificial suns and nucleogenesis stations orbiting very far from the black hole, and tens of thousands of diamond habitats, belt upon concentric belt of asteroid mansions, as if the rings of Saturn, expanded to encompass an area greater than your Solar System, were made of inextinguishable fire and glittering fields of endless, living jewelry!
A series of ellipses appeared on top of the concentric circles that represented the orbits of the planets.
As she glanced back and forth, she became aware that there were crude marks etched into the walls, as if with a stone: weird concentric ribbons, sticklike figures, great clouds of frantic scribbles.
Tray of Tarts swept in a wave onto the stage, dressed in long, gossamer-like cloaks and swirled around him, at various levels and in a vast concentric circle.
Tens of thousands of units, each self-sustaining and comparatively simple, spaced millions of kilometers apart, were arranged in vast, concentric spheres, the outermost of which lay at a distance of several astronomical units antisunward from Hyperborea.
He traced concentric circles around her dark areolas until her nipples stood out like hard little stones.
My next task was to arrange concentric circles of the empanadas and deviled eggs.
Before long, the feasters were spinning in several concentric rings, one going one way, the next the other.
He stared emptily and flailed his oversize hands in the air in rough, concentric circles.
His bulky suit fit with very little leeway into the space between two concentric hulls, on a machine that was not meant to carry a livecrew, or even a single passenger, except in the most dire emergency.
As concentric rings of turbulent light expanding to the diameter of a small sea erupted from its summit, a single imposing device of Himalayan dimensions discharged a blinding fork of lightninglike energy so intensely purple it was almost black.