center
/ˈsɛn.tɚ/ noun A2- The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
- The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
- The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
- The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
- 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). · The centroid is one of the centres of a triangle
- A point on a triangle's plane that is in some sense in its middle. · There are several centers of a triangle such as its circumcenter, incenter, orthocenter and centroid.
- A place, especially a building or complex, set aside for some specified function or activity. · shopping center, convention center, civic center, garment center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Rockefeller Center
- The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
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From the library
There was a ruined summer-house of white marble in the center of the terrace, built for queens dead a hundred years ago.
“It is exactly in the center of the country, and is ruled by Oz, the Great Wizard I told you of.”
The cubs tumbled over each other in the center of the circle where their mothers and fathers sat, and now and again a senior wolf would go quietly up to a cub, look at him carefully, and return to his place on noiseless feet.
At last--and Mother Wolf’s neck bristles lifted as the time came--Father Wolf pushed “Mowgli the Frog,” as they called him, into the center, where he sat laughing and playing with some pebbles that glistened in the moonlight.
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