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center
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Of, at, or related to a center. n. 1 The point in the interior of a circle or sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference. (from 14th c.) 2 The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges. 3 (context geometry English) ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The term center or centre is used in various contexts in abstract algebra to denote the set of all those elements that commute with all other elements. It is often denoted Z, from German Zentrum, meaning "center". More specifically: The center of a group ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Center \Cen"ter\, Centre \Cen"tre\ v. i. [imp. & p. p. Centered or Centred ; p. pr. & vb. n. Centering or Centring .] To be placed in a center; to be central. To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center. Where ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. equally distant from the extremes [syn: center(a) , halfway , middle(a) , midway ] of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually [ant: right , left ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "to concentrate at a center," from center (n.). Related: Centered ; centering . Meaning "to rest as at a center" is from 1620s. Sports sense of "to hit toward the center" is from 1890. To be centered on is from 1713. In combinations, -centered is ...
Usage examples of center.
Ottomans and center of the silk trade, its quiet, declining streets abloom with minarets and cypress trees.
On the dressing table, ably guarded by a dark Regency armchair cushioned in yet another floral, sat an assemblage of antique silver-hair accessories and crystal perfume flacons, the grouping flanked by two small lamps, everything centered around a gold Empire vanity mirror.
The looping ridge A, at the center, has an appendage B abutting upon its recurve.
But in 1968 experimenters at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, making use of the increased capacity of technology to probe the microscopic depths of matter, found that protons and neutrons are not fundamental, either.
Lance Dixon of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center made a pivotal observation in this regard that was further amplified by Wolfgang Lerche of CERN, Vafa at Harvard, and Nicholas Warner, then of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ethernet jacks installed in conference rooms, the cafeteria, training centers, or other areas accessible to visitors shall be filtered to prevent unauthorized access by visitors to the corporate computer systems.
Europe by the Crusaders and its figs and pistachios which the Romans transplanted around the Mediterranean as a far-flung gift from the Damascenes, worshipper once of Adad the storm-god and later a flourishing center of Christianity and Islam, holy to Christians because of the conversion of St.
His snow-white hair wasparted neatly to the side, and in the center of his forehead was adeep purple welt that spread down into his right eye.
Their times were staggered so they would all be at the same distance from the admin center at the half hour before dawn.
They were within seventy-five meters of the admin center before Seaman First Class Broward noticed the pattern.
In addition, because businesses in the enclosed center no longer had to advertise to passing car traffic, their storefronts could be more subdued and harmonious.
The respiratory center is also connected by afferent nerves with the mucous membrane of the air passages.
On the starboard side of the control room, starting at the forward starboard bulkhead and wrapping around aft, was the attack center, a group of firecontrol consoles and seats for the officers manning them.
By that time the warhead received its signal to detonate and the fuse flashed into incandescence, lighting off an intermediate explosive set in the center of the main explosive, which erupted into a white-hot segment that detonated the high-explosive cylinder of the unit in the nose cone aft of the seeker and navigation modules forward of the central processor.
On the aft wall Pacino had taped a large chart of the Go Hai and Korea bays, the Lushun area in the center.