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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
center
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
front and center
▪ Prayer in schools has become a front-and-center issue.
outreach program/service/center etc
▪ outreach centers for drug addicts
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
financial
▪ Like stocks, they are traded daily in New York and in other financial centers.
▪ Long-term financial planning centers on planning for the future growth of the company and devising plans to finance this growth.
main
▪ The main detention center was designed to hold 150 people, but sometimes houses 600.
▪ His family home in Aba was the main distributing center and office for three major newspapers in his country.
▪ There are five main sales centers, including one in Los Angeles, which hold auctions every nine weeks.
▪ The main center of the revolutionary movement thereupon shifted for the time being to the colonial countries.
▪ His monthly department head meetings are being held outside the main administration center.
major
▪ Webb quickly became an important retailer in a city that was then a major center for pop music.
▪ Like Manhattan, Bangalore is also a major national center for medical research.
▪ Even modest elevations of sea level therefore can threaten many major population centers.
medical
▪ For comparison, we utilized patients from clinics at a Midwestern inner city medical center.
▪ The blood sample, if drawn outside Stanford, can be transported to the Palo Alto-based medical center by courier.
▪ Patients would probably have to be moved, either to other military medical centers or to private health-care facilities.
▪ Eighteen medical centers will enroll patients in the trial.
▪ Nonpatient populations were then polled and interviewed through the courtesy of medical centers and universities throughout the country.
▪ She is expected to move from critical care to a private room at Hackensack University Medical center.
▪ HMOs and modern medical centers are powerful institutions with an army of in-house lawyers, risk managers and numerous administrators.
▪ University officials describe the merger as an economic lifeline for the prestigious but financially ailing medical center.
new
▪ Millions of people either moved there or were born in new industrial centers where factories and mills were located.
▪ They will, however, be getting a new center, and that is a good start, he believes.
▪ In addition to a small cafeteria at the new center, the main Visitors' Center has many meal choices.
▪ Product management is developing a standardized suite of managed services that will be offered in the new data centers.
▪ She is conducting a survey to see what new activities the center should offer.
▪ A new high-altitude touring center has opened at Killington in Vermont.
▪ City officials had wanted to wait until moving into the new dispatch center to buy a new state-of-the-art computer.
▪ The foundation funded a dozen new career centers in high schools, where students could come for career guidance and counseling.
senior
▪ She spent time at a day care center, a senior center, a food distribution place.
▪ Seniors can make appointments to visit the mobile unit by calling their local senior center.
▪ The program likely is to shutter 34 senior centers, where elderly people drop in and get a noon meal.
urban
▪ Blacks in large numbers started leaving the South for northern urban centers in the 1920s.
▪ Westerners are often tempted to write off the great urban centers of the developing world as almost beyond hope.
▪ It was to its urban centers that those interested in a better education and a broader range of opportunities were drawn.
■ NOUN
care
▪ She spent time at a day care center, a senior center, a food distribution place.
▪ Electric Co. has had its own child care center at its Beale Street headquarters since 1992.
city
▪ Aiming back toward the city center, we forded ankle-deep streams that had once been boulevards.
▪ It is about a 25-minute walk from the city center.
▪ Nor was it for Father Vic, who lived in the rectory maintained by his order in the city center.
▪ But the city center idea collapsed and so did Rancho Vistoso's plans.
▪ The city center moved north with the development of banks and other businesses.
▪ Tucson has tried scheme after scheme to lure crowds to the city center.
community
▪ Prosecutors originally were seeking a 10-month term, with five months to be served in a community center.
▪ Why does this city need a gay community center?
▪ No house of worship nor community center should be bereft of personnel or equipment for such education.
▪ The Archdiocese of San Francisco also plans to construct a church, a new school and community center at the site.
▪ Inside a community center, the new council members sat through three hours of speeches.
▪ Perhaps the most promising example of this kind of institution is the gay community center.
▪ Many members consider it more a community center than a health club.
convention
▪ Before forming the task force, Golding said the planned $ 213 million convention center expansion will not be included.
▪ Loans would be floated for construction of the convention center and the new county buildings.
▪ Like Anderson, they wanted those within the convention center to hear them.
▪ The water quality board cited the port in 1995 for excessive contaminants in the convention center operation.
▪ He also made a deal with the Port District that permitted construction of the convention center.
▪ The city will assume responsibility for convention center permit issues when bonds are issued to finance expansion of the facility.
▪ The Port District built the convention center in 1989, but it is managed by the city.
▪ Held in a sprawling Phoenix convention center, the lavish party is big enough to accommodate four or five bands simultaneously.
detention
▪ Police take violators to a special detention center and telephone their homes.
▪ Women are more likely to end up in county jails because INSrun detention centers sometimes can not handle females.
▪ The main detention center was designed to hold 150 people, but sometimes houses 600.
▪ He was in and out of juvenile detention centers for four years on weapons and drug charges and other violations.
▪ High Commissioner for Refugees visit the detention center twice a week to assess those requests.
distribution
▪ The Norwalk residence served as a distribution center, authorities said.
▪ But no: the firm decided instead to eliminate overtime pay for workers at its packaging and distribution center.
▪ Hiatt had come to oppose Shames and his plan to build a $ 30 million high-tech distribution center in Louisville, Ky.
▪ Management for the operation will be based at the Wal-Mart distribution center, Norden said.
▪ This is the fourth start-up of a Wal-Mart distribution center for Schneider in the past three years.
▪ We have a big distribution center in Morgan Hill.
▪ After the closing of its distribution centers led to organizational disaster, the firm did its best to minimize these consequences.
▪ The year following the elimination of the distribution centers was, by employee consensus, the worst the company had ever endured.
recreation
▪ Over in a corner, at the entrance to the recreation center, is a small grove of banana and ficus trees.
▪ The recreation center is the first phase of the one-third-acre project.
▪ At age 10, she began tagging along when her brothers would head out to the neighborhood playgrounds and recreation centers.
▪ In 1989, the Golden Hill recreation center needed a new roof and repainting.
▪ The team is crammed into a small, windowless conference room at the University of Southern California student recreation center.
▪ Their forces shut dozens of schools, mosques and recreation centers in poor neighborhoods throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
rehabilitation
▪ After the war, the site became a physical rehabilitation center and research facility.
▪ We need only to cite schools and colleges, hospitals, drug rehabilitation centers, libraries and the like.
▪ They came directly from hospitals or drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers and, in a few cases, from prison.
▪ A few years earlier, the man had sought treatment at the drug rehabilitation center where Ruiz volunteers.
research
▪ These are the findings in a study just issued by the Rand research center in Santa Monica.
▪ Both universities have medical schools, hospitals, clinics and research centers of worldwide repute.
▪ He had a hospital and research center in mind.
▪ An informal group of exchange scientists at the North Carolina research center had already attached their annotations.
service
▪ The duties of employment interviewers in job service centers differ somewhat because applicants may lack marketable skills.
▪ The neighborhood service centers assisted commissioners in assessing conditions and priorities in their respective subareas and in formulating appropriate proposals.
▪ Employment opportunities should be better in private placement firms than in State job service centers.
▪ The neighborhood service centers, however, survived the council onslaught.
▪ In addition, the store is now an official service center for the full line of Hewlett Packard computer goods.
▪ The human service center recently moved from leased space into a new, county-owned building in downtown Grand Forks.
▪ Acceptable use policies of non-ISPs are published and are usually easily available in the network information service centers of the target network.
treatment
▪ The publication also is distributed to youth clubs, clinics, school libraries, drug treatment centers and churches across the country.
▪ Flores has been commuting to Santa Anita from a substance-abuse treatment center.
▪ The spas are first and foremost medical treatment centers, and most guests come with a recommendation from a doctor.
▪ But they did not consider his stay in the day treatment center successful.
▪ Diagnostic and then treatment centers would be set up in those states where the disease was endemic.
▪ To survive, many treatment centers have expanded their outpatient offerings.
▪ During the 1970s and 1980s, treatment centers cropped up all over the nation.
▪ All were treated at private treatment centers which required either insurance coverage or self-payment for the treatment.
■ VERB
become
▪ She overwhelms Willie and becomes the center of his life.
▪ The typical Well Fargo lobby could become a virtual center of family life.
▪ I had hoped that writing would become the center of my life.
▪ Sorrento Valley has become Telecom Valley, which is becoming a world center for the development of wireless mobile phones.
▪ Bangalore became a software center very recently, and so far most of what is done there is relatively unsophisticated.
▪ Now they became centers of hostility.
▪ He and not Persephone became the center of the belief in immortality.
build
▪ A mission project of the Methodist Church is building a technology center so local businesses can travel the information superhighway.
▪ The college was not required to have city or county building officials inspect the center.
▪ The Port District built the convention center in 1989, but it is managed by the city.
move
▪ They belonged to the dream at the edges too; but now they were moving to the center.
▪ As decision-making power moves away from the center, the grip of the home office loosens.
run
▪ Scheduling time off takes some doing; he owns a construction company, and she runs an equestrian center.
▪ The city never intended to run the center permanently.
shop
▪ At the shopping center, the ubiquitous closed-circuit camera may soon be smart enough to seek him out personally.
▪ The roadway also would be widened from two to four lanes from the shopping center to the Menlo Park border.
▪ It even has its own Metro subway stop and shopping center.
▪ He was on his way to a shopping center in Jeff Parish where a model fallout shelter was on display.
▪ This is a mom-and-pop shop, tucked away in the Vons supermarket shopping center in University City.
▪ The mobile museum visits schools, retirement homes, shopping centers and other venues.
▪ James, a shopping center, is at the east end of Princes Street.
stand
▪ He did not invite Sandoz to sit but rather left him standing in the center of the room.
▪ Today, standing in the center of town, only oak and juniper remain.
▪ In it the minister and I are standing in the center of the stairs, surrounded by missionaries.
▪ Two saddles in progress stand in the center of his overcrowded workshop.
▪ This doorway did not stand in the center of the wall, which seems unusual.
▪ An unabashed king-size bed made up with a flowered bedspread stands in the dead center of the room.
train
▪ BMost students at the training center, having stared death in the face, undertake vast career shifts.
▪ They also are trying to make apprentices more productive by reducing the time they spend in expensive training centers.
▪ The partnership also will form a training center for engine localization and development.
▪ The island is a training center for agents.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a flower with yellow petals and a purple center
▪ a huge shopping center
▪ a major banking center
▪ a new $3 million center for the elderly
▪ His goal is to turn Stanford into a center for environmental policy.
▪ the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Center

Center \Cen"ter\, Centre \Cen"tre\ v. i. [imp. & p. p. Centered or Centred; p. pr. & vb. n. Centering or Centring.]

  1. To be placed in a center; to be central.

  2. To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center.

    Where there is no visible truth wherein to center, error is as wide as men's fancies.
    --Dr. H. More.

    Our hopes must center in ourselves alone.
    --Dryden.

Center

Center \Cen"ter\, Centre \Cen"tre\, v. t.

  1. To place or fix in the center or on a central point.
    --Milton.

  2. To collect to a point; to concentrate.

    Thy joys are centered all in me alone.
    --Prior.

  3. (Mech.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

Center

Center \Cen"ter\, n. [F. centre, fr. L. centrum, fr. round which a circle is described, fr. ? to prick, goad.]

  1. A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.

  2. The middle or central portion of anything.

  3. A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction.

  4. The earth. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  5. Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left.

  6. (Arch.) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.

  7. (Mech.)

    1. One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.

    2. A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe. Note: In a lathe the live center is in the spindle of the head stock; the dead center is on the tail stock. Planer centers are stocks carrying centers, when the object to be planed must be turned on its axis. Center of an army, the body or troops occupying the place in the line between the wings. Center of a curve or Center of a surface (Geom.)

      1. A point such that every line drawn through the point and terminated by the curve or surface is bisected at the point.

      2. The fixed point of reference in polar co["o]rdinates. See Co["o]rdinates.

        Center of curvature of a curve (Geom.), the center of that circle which has at any given point of the curve closer contact with the curve than has any other circle whatever. See Circle.

        Center of a fleet, the division or column between the van and rear, or between the weather division and the lee.

        Center of gravity (Mech.), that point of a body about which all its parts can be balanced, or which being supported, the whole body will remain at rest, though acted upon by gravity.

        Center of gyration (Mech.), that point in a rotating body at which the whole mass might be concentrated (theoretically) without altering the resistance of the intertia of the body to angular acceleration or retardation.

        Center of inertia (Mech.), the center of gravity of a body or system of bodies.

        Center of motion, the point which remains at rest, while all the other parts of a body move round it.

        Center of oscillation, the point at which, if the whole matter of a suspended body were collected, the time of oscillation would be the same as it is in the actual form and state of the body.

        Center of percussion, that point in a body moving about a fixed axis at which it may strike an obstacle without communicating a shock to the axis.

        Center of pressure (Hydros.), that point in a surface pressed by a fluid, at which, if a force equal to the whole pressure and in the same line be applied in a contrary direction, it will balance or counteract the whole pressure of the fluid.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
center

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 attested by 1958.

center

late 14c., "middle point of a circle; point round which something revolves," from Old French centre (14c.), from Latin centrum "center," originally fixed point of the two points of a drafting compass, from Greek kentron "sharp point, goad, sting of a wasp," from kentein "stitch," from PIE root *kent- "to prick" (cognates: Breton kentr "a spur," Welsh cethr "nail," Old High German hantag "sharp, pointed").\n

\nFiguratively from 1680s. Meaning "the middle of anything" attested from 1590s. Spelling with -re popularized in Britain by Johnson's dictionary (following Bailey's), though -er is older and was used by Shakespeare, Milton, and Pope. Center of gravity is recorded from 1650s. Center of attention is from 1868.

Wiktionary
center

  1. 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) The point on a line that is midway between the ends. 4 (context geometry English) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume). 5 A place where some function or activity occurs. 6 A topic that is particularly important in a given context. 7 (context basketball English) The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket. 8 (context ice hockey English) The forward that generally plays between the left wing and right wing and usually takes the faceoffs. 9 (context American football English) The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play. 10 (context Canadian football English) The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play. 11 (context netball English) A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles. 12 (context soccer English) A pass played into the centre of the pitch. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area. 2 (context transitive English) To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway between the extremes. 3 (context transitive English) To give (something) a central basis. 4 (context intransitive English) To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something). 5 (context engineering English) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

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WordNet
center

  1. adj. equally distant from the extremes [syn: center(a), halfway, middle(a), midway]

  2. of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually [ant: right, left]

center

  1. v. center upon; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work" [syn: focus on, center on, revolve around, revolve about, concentrate on]

  2. direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies" [syn: concentrate, focus, centre, pore, rivet]

  3. move into the center; "That vase in the picture is not centered" [syn: centre]

center

  1. n. an area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm" [syn: centre, middle, heart, eye]

  2. the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher; "he hit the ball to deep center" [syn: center field]

  3. a building dedicated to a particular activity; "they were raising money to build a new center for research" [syn: centre]

  4. a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure [syn: centre, midpoint]

  5. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty]

  6. the object upon which interest and attention focuses; "his stories made him the center of the party" [syn: center of attention]

  7. a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process; "in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere" [syn: centre, nerve center, nerve centre]

  8. the middle of a military or naval formation; "they had to reinforce the center"

  9. (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team

  10. (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback; "the center fumbled the handoff" [syn: snapper]

  11. a place where some particular activity is concentrated; "they received messages from several centers" [syn: centre]

  12. politically moderate persons; centrists

  13. (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team

  14. the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering [syn: centre]

  15. mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace; "a good plaza should have a movie house"; "they spent their weekends at the local malls" [syn: plaza, mall, shopping mall, shopping center, shopping centre]

  16. the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game

  17. the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play; "it is a center's responsibility to get the football to the quarterback"

  18. a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the center jump to start the game

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Gazetteer
Center, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 90
Housing Units (2000): 49
Land area (2000): 0.107139 sq. miles (0.277488 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.107139 sq. miles (0.277488 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08360
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 42.608910 N, 97.876224 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68724
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Center, NE
Center
Center, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado
Population (2000): 2392
Housing Units (2000): 848
Land area (2000): 0.838020 sq. miles (2.170463 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.838020 sq. miles (2.170463 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12855
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 37.752862 N, 106.110483 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 81125
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Center, CO
Center
Center, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
Population (2000): 678
Housing Units (2000): 310
Land area (2000): 0.388800 sq. miles (1.006987 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.388800 sq. miles (1.006987 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13180
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 47.114928 N, 101.300361 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Center, ND
Center
Center, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 5678
Housing Units (2000): 2290
Land area (2000): 6.232461 sq. miles (16.141999 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.012825 sq. miles (0.033217 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.245286 sq. miles (16.175216 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13732
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.793705 N, 94.178463 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 75935
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Center, TX
Center
Center, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 644
Housing Units (2000): 309
Land area (2000): 0.397189 sq. miles (1.028714 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.397189 sq. miles (1.028714 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12592
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 39.509267 N, 91.528566 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 63436
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Center, MO
Center
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Wikipedia
Center (group theory)

In abstract algebra, the center of a group, is the set of elements that commute with every element of . It is denoted , from German Zentrum, meaning center. In set-builder notation,

.

The center is a normal subgroup, . As a subgroup, it is always characteristic, but is not necessarily fully characteristic. The quotient group, , is isomorphic to the inner automorphism group, .

A group, is abelian if and only if . At the other extreme, a group is said to be centerless if is trivial; i.e., consists only of the identity element.

The elements of the center are sometimes called central.

Center

Center or centre may refer to:

Center (disambiguation)
Center (PAT station)

Center was a station on the Port Authority of Allegheny County's light rail network, located in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. The street level stop was designed as a small commuter stop, serving area residents who walked to the train so they could be taken toward Downtown Pittsburgh.

Center was one of eleven stops closed on June 25, 2012 as part of a system-wide consolidation effort.

Center (algebra)

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 G consists of all those elements x in G such that xg = gx for all g in G. This is a normal subgroup of G.
  • The similarly named notion for a semigroup is defined likewise and it is a subsemigroup.
  • The center of a ring R is the subset of R consisting of all those elements x of R such that xr = rx for all r in R. The center is a commutative subring of R, and R is an algebra over its center.
  • The center of an algebra A consists of all those elements x of A such that xa = ax for all a in A. See also: central simple algebra.
  • The center of a Lie algebra L consists of all those elements x in L such that [x,a] = 0 for all a in L. This is an ideal of the Lie algebra L.
  • The center of a monoidal category C consists of pairs (A,u) where A is an object of C, and u : A ⊗  −  →  −  ⊗ A a natural isomorphism satisfying certain axioms.
Center (basketball)

The center (C), also known as the five or the big man, is one of the five positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well.

The tallest player to ever be drafted in the NBA or the WNBA was the 7'8" (2.33 m) Yasutaka Okayama from Japan, though he never played in the NBA. The tallest players to ever play in the NBA, at 7'7" (2.31 m), are centers Gheorghe Mureșan, and Manute Bol. Standing at 7'2" (2.18 m), Margo Dydek is the tallest player to have ever played in the WNBA.

Center (gridiron football)

Center (C) is a position in American football and Canadian football (in the latter the position is spelled centre, following Commonwealth spelling conventions). The center is the innermost lineman of the offensive line on a football team's offense. The center is also the player who passes (or " snaps") the ball between his legs to the quarterback at the start of each play.

In recent years, the importance of centers for a football team has increased, due to the re-emergence of 3-4 defenses. According to Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome, "you need to have somebody who can neutralize that nose tackle. If you don't, everything can get screwed up. Your running game won't be effective and you'll also have somebody in your quarterback's face on every play."

Center (band)

Center (or Tsentr, Russian: Центр) is a Russian-speaking band, which can be described as eclectic and experimental. The styles of their music are very different, starting with new wave and Russian rock in the early years, crossing over to electronica.

Center was founded by Vasily Shumov in Moscow, Russia in the late 1970s. The first band name was "777". In the early 1980s Center became popular in the Soviet music underground. The band released over 25 albums, created music for films and TV, appeared on TV shows, and performed in Europe and America. Center is documented in numerous publications and books.

In the 1990s, the band leader Shumov moved from Moscow, Russia to Los Angeles, United States where he continued his music and art work.

An album "Plastikozamenitel'" ("Plastic substitute") from 2000 is the first release of Center that features the new concept of so-called Centroborators. Centroborators are the artists from various locations, who contribute to the albums of Center, transferring their digital recordings to Vasily Shumov's studio using internet. Several albums after "Plastikozamenitel" were created using the Centroborators concept.

Numerous albums by Center and Shumov are available on CDs and as MP3 files for free download from the band's official web site.

Since the mid-2000s, the band recommenced activities in Russia.

Center (category theory)

Let C = (C,  ⊗ , I) be a (strict) monoidal category. The center of C, also called the Drinfeld center of C and denoted Z(C), is the category whose objects are pairs (A,u) consisting of an object A of C and a natural isomorphism u : A ⊗ X → X ⊗ A satisfying

u = (1 ⊗ u)(u ⊗ 1)

and

u = 1 (this is actually a consequence of the first axiom).

An arrow from (A,u) to (B,v) in Z(C) consists of an arrow f : A → B in C such that


v(f ⊗ 1) = (1 ⊗ f)u
.

The category Z(C) becomes a braided monoidal category with the tensor product on objects defined as


(A, u) ⊗ (B, v) = (A ⊗ B, w)

where w = (u ⊗ 1)(1 ⊗ v), and the obvious braiding .

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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.