noun. A point or place that is equally distant from the sides or outer boundaries of something; the middle.

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noun. A point equidistant from the vertices of a regular polygon.

noun. A point equidistant from all points on the circumference of a circle or on the surface of a sphere.

noun. A point around which something rotates or revolves.

noun. A part of an object that is surrounded by the rest; a core.

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noun. A place where a particular activity or service is concentrated.

noun. A point of origin, as of influence, ideas, or actions.

noun. An area of dense population.

noun. A person or thing that is the chief object of attention, interest, activity, or emotion.

noun. A person, object, or group occupying a middle position.

noun. A political group or a set of policies representing a moderate view between those of the right and the left.

noun. A group of neurons in the central nervous system that control a particular function.

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noun. A player who holds a middle position on the field, court, or forward line in some team sports, such as hockey and basketball.

noun. An offensive lineman who snaps the ball to begin a play, usually positioned in the middle of the line.

noun. Center field.

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noun. A small conical hole made in a piece of work with a center punch so that a drill can be accurately positioned within it.

noun. A bar with a conical point used to support work, as during turning on a lathe.

noun. A centering.

intransitive verb. To place in or at the center.

intransitive verb. To direct toward a center or central point; concentrate or focus.

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intransitive verb. To pass (a ball or puck) toward the center of a playing area.

intransitive verb. To play as a center on (a line), as in ice hockey.

intransitive verb. To hike (the ball) to begin a down.

intransitive verb. To be concentrated; cluster.

intransitive verb. To have a central theme or concern; be focused.

intransitive verb. To play as a center.

noun. An arched frame on which the arch of a bridge or any vaulted work is supported during its construction: same as centering.

noun. A point so situated with regard to a locus that all chords of the locus, drawn through the point, are bisected in it. The pole of a straight at infinity with respect to a certain conic is the center of the conic.

noun. In foot-ball, roller-polo, basket-ball, hockey, and other games, the one who plays in the middle of the forward line; in foot-ball, the snap-back.

noun. Any group or collection of cells, within the brain, that subserves a single function.

noun. The point at which a body must be supported in order to remain quietly balanced when the wind is blowing on it. For plane plates the location of the center as determined by Kümmer varies with the dimensions of the plate, but is always in front of the center of the figure.

noun. The visual center of the retina, where sight is keenest. Also called the yellow spot. See macula lutea, under macula and also under retina (10).

noun. The center about which any moving piece or assemblage of pieces in a mechanism can be supposed to be rotating at any instant. Notwithstanding that the relative positions of such pieces or links may be constantly changing, yet at any instant they will be turning round a common center, which, however, shifts in space with each new relative position of the links. The determination of the virtual center, as it is sometimes called, is of use in estimating the relative velocity-ratios and forces acting on the bodies.

To place on a center; fix on a central point.

To collect to a point.

To be placed in a center or in the middle.

To meet or be collected in one point; be concentrated or united in or about a focus, literally or figuratively.

noun. That point from which all the points of a circumference or of the superficies of a sphere are equally distant: in a regular figure or body the center is a point so situated with reference to the circumscribed circle or sphere.

noun. The middle point or part of any surface or solid.

noun. The fixed point once supposed to exist in the middle of the universe.

noun. In heraldry, the middle point, whether of the whole field or of the chief or base.

noun. One of the points of the two lathe-spindles on which an object to be turned is placed, distinguished as the front or live center, on the spindle of the head-stock, and the dead center, on that of the tail-stock: also, one of two similar points for holding an object to be operated on by some other machine, as a planing-machine, and enabling the object to be turned round on its axis.

noun. A point of concentration or diffusion; the nucleus about which or into which things are collected or from which they diverge or emerge: as, a center of attraction; a center of power.

noun. The central object; the principal point; the point of chief interest: as, the center of a diplomatic negotiation.

noun. 8. Milit.:

"They make it possible for governing from the center to be * seen as governing from the center* rather than having a replay of the Clinton years when centrist governance came to define the left-most pole of the possible."

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