Definition of center

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Center (n.) 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..

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Center :: Center (n.) One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves..
Necrosis :: Necrosis (n.) A disease of trees, in which the branches gradually dry up from the bark to the center..
Revolution :: Revolution (n.) The motion of a point, line, or surface about a point or line as its center or axis, in such a manner that a moving point generates a curve, a moving line a surface (called a surface of revolution), and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of revolution); as, the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its sides generates a cone; the revolution of a semicircle about the diameter generates a sphere..
Excentral :: Excentral (a.) Out of the center.
Inhibitory :: Inhibitory (a.) Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center..
Principal :: Principal (n.) One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
Multispiral :: Multispiral (a.) Having numerous spiral coils round a center or nucleus; -- said of the opercula of certain shells.
Concentre :: Concentre (v. t.) To draw or direct to a common center; to bring together at a focus or point, as two or more lines; to concentrate..
Uncenter :: Uncenter (v. t.) Alt. of Uncentr.
Centered :: Centered (imp. & p. p.) of Centr.
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything..
Nucleate :: Nucleate (v. t.) To gather, as about a nucleus or center..
Centrebit :: Centrebit (n.) An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3..
Divergency :: Divergency (n.) A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines..
Decentralize :: Decentralize (v. t.) To prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); -- esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs..
Selenecentric :: Selenecentric (a.) As seen or estimated from the center of the moon; with the moon central.
Concretion :: Concretion (n.) A rounded mass or nodule produced by an aggregation of the material around a center; as, the calcareous concretions common in beds of clay..
Incurved :: Incurved (a.) Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals..
Lagging :: Lagging (n.) Lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one rib to another in the centering of arches..
Retraction :: Retraction (n.) The state or condition of a part when drawn back, or towards the center of the body..
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