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Word: center (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Of, at, or related to a center.

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Noun:

  • American football The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play.
  • A place where some function or activity occurs.
  • A topic that is particularly important in a given context.
  • basketball The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket.
  • geometry The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference of the circle.
  • geometry 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).
  • geometry The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the surface of the sphere.
  • geometry The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
  • ice hockey The forward that generally plays between the left wing and right wing and usually takes the faceoffs.
  • The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.

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Verb:

  • intransitive To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something).
  • transitive To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.
  • transitive To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway between the extremes.

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