center
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
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mathematics
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netball
physical-sciences
politics
rugby
sciences
skating
soccer
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-der.
Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron)der.
Latin centrumder.
Middle French centrebor.
Middle English center
English center
From Middle English center, centre, from Middle French centre, from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron), from κεντεῖν (kenteîn, “to prick, goad”). Doublet of centrum.
* (group theory): In the notation Z(G), the letter Z derives from the German Zentrum (“center”).
Inflected forms:
form: centers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: centre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Australia
Canada
Commonwealth
Ireland
New-Zealand
South-Africa
UK
including
usually
form: centre
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Australia
Canada
Commonwealth
Ireland
New-Zealand
South-Africa
UK
including
usually
form: centers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: centering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: centered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: centered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: centre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Australia
Canada
Commonwealth
Ireland
New-Zealand
South-Africa
UK
including
usually
Senses:
gloss: The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
examples: If a point be taken within a circle, and more than two equal straight lines fall from the point on the circle, the point taken is the centre of the circle.
gloss: The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
examples: Japanese scientists are to explore the centre of the Earth. Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the first to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below.
gloss: The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
gloss: The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
obsolete
examples: [...] their portion set
As far remov'd from God and light of Heav'n
As from the Center thrice to th'utmost Pole.
Leo. No: if I mistake
In those Foundations which I build upon,
The Centre is not bigge enough to beare
A Schoole-Boyes Top.
gloss: The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
examples: The centroid is one of the centres of a triangle
gloss: A point on a triangle's plane that is in some sense in its middle.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
examples: There are several centers of a triangle such as its circumcenter, incenter, orthocenter and centroid.
gloss: A place, especially a building or complex, set aside for some specified function or activity.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
examples: shopping center, convention center, civic center, garment center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Rockefeller Center
gloss: The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
gloss: The venue in which the head of government in a centralized state is situated.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
examples: In Anatolia tensions between state officials (ehl-i örf) and the peasants were strained to breaking point.
At several places—particularly in the frontier provinces—there were fierce clashes between the janissaries stationed there and the governors. In Aleppo and Damascus incidents were common after 1589: the kuls threw rocks at the beylerbeyi’s house, killed people, broke into the divan several times and took the money prepared by the council for remittance to the centre.
gloss: A topic that is particularly important in a given context, the element in a subject of cognition, volition or discussion that is perceived as decisive.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
examples: the center of the controversy
the center of attention
gloss: A player in the middle of a playing area.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
gloss: A player in the middle of a playing area.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
gloss: A player in the middle of a playing area.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Canadian
US
alternative
gloss: A player in the middle of a playing area.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
gloss: A player in the middle of a playing area.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
examples: Bent twice sent efforts wide of the far post after cutting in from the left, Wellbeck missed his kick from an inviting centre and failed to get on the end of a looping pass when six yards out.
gloss: A player in the middle of a playing area.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
examples: Gatland's side got back to within striking distance when fly-half Jones's clever pass sent centre Jonathan Davies arcing round Shontayne Hape.
gloss: A certain mechanical implement functioning in the middle of a whole apparatus
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
gloss: A certain mechanical implement functioning in the middle of a whole apparatus
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
gloss: A certain mechanical implement functioning in the middle of a whole apparatus
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
gloss: A certain mechanical implement functioning in the middle of a whole apparatus
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
New-Zealand
US
alternative
gloss: The set of those elements (of a given algebraic structure) that commute with every other element, usually denoted Z(G). In the case of (semi-)groups, it is required that they commute under the (semi-)group operation; in the case of rings and (Lie) algebras, under multiplication (i.e. the bracket for Lie algebras)
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
alternative
gloss: Of, at, or related to a center.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
alternative
not-comparable
gloss: To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
alternative
transitive
examples: ????, Matthew Prior, Celia to Damon
Thy joys are centred all in me alone.
He centered the heading of the document.
gloss: To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway between the extremes.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
alternative
transitive
gloss: To give (something) a central basis.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
alternative
transitive
examples: However, Lucas also centered the plot around the protection of the secret Death Star plans, which now filled the role of the clan treasure the enemy is seeking in Hidden Fortress; […]
gloss: To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something).
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
alternative
intransitive
examples: The plot centers on the life of a working-class family.
The discussion centered around the recent issues.
gloss: To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
alternative
Synonyms: centroid
center of gravity
center of mass
middle
midst
Antonyms: periphery
Related words: central
Derived words: adjustment center
alt-center
anticenter
apocenter
aquatic center
area control center
bandcenter
barycenter
behind center
bottom dead center
Brookfield Center
burn center
call center
Canton Center
center-back
center back
centerbit
center-board
centerboard
centercab
center circle
Center City
center console
center field
centerfield
center fielder
centerfire
centerfold
center forward
Center Game
centerground
Center Harbor
centerish
center island
centerless
center line
centerline
centerman
center mark
center of attention
center of buoyancy
center of curvature
center of effort
center of excellence
center of gravity
center of inertia
center of lift
center of mass
center of pressure
center of symmetry
Center Ossipee
centerpiece
centerpin
centerpoint
center punch
centerpunch
center-right
Center Sandwich
center spot
centerspread
center spread
center square
centerstage
center stage
center stick
center tap
Center Tuftonboro
Centerville
centerward
centre-bit
chiral center
chromocenter
circumcenter
city center
civic center
Clay Center
cocenter
color center
community center
concenter
control center
convention center
cool center
cooling center
correctional center
correction center
corrections center
cost center
crisis center
cultural center
data center
day care center
daycare center
dead-center
dead center
decenter
deictic center
Desert Center
detention center
distribution center
drop-in center
Eaton Center
emergency dispatch center
entertainment center
Essex Center
excenter
Fairfield Center
Farbe center
F-center
feminine of center
fitness center
front and center
front-and-center
fusion center
galactic center
gaming center
garden center
germinal center
Grundy Center
Guthrie Center
gyrocenter
Hale Center
Hayes Center
health center
high center
high-center
horizontal machining center
incenter
intercenter
isocenter
job center
Le Center
left-of-center
leisure center
Lewis Center
Lincoln Center
machining center
Manchester Center
Mansfield Center
masculine of center
media center
medical center
megacenter
monocenter
multi-center
multicenter
music center
nerve center
Niles Center
off-center
orthocenter
pericenter
photocenter
playcenter
pleasure center
power center
profit center
radical center
Randolph Center
reassignment center
recenter
reception center
Richland Center
right-of-center
Rush Center
science center
shopping center
side center
Smith Center
Spieker center
sports center
stereocenter
storm center
subcenter
Sun City Center
supercenter
surgicenter
tactical air control center
Thetford Center
three-center two-electron bond
tonal center
top dead center
town center
turning center
uncenter
under center
Valley Center
vertical machining center
warming center
wilderness treatment center
Wilshire Center
Windham Center
world trade center
Yates Center
youth center
youth detention center
self-centering
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: sentrum
lang: Albanian
word: qendër
lang: Arabic
word: مَرْكَز
roman: markaz
lang: Arabic
word: وَسَط
roman: wasaṭ
lang: Arabic
word: وَسْط
roman: wasṭ
lang: Arabic
word: وسط
roman: wasṭ
lang: Arabic
word: مركز
roman: markaz
lang: Armenian
word: կենտրոն
roman: kentron
lang: Azerbaijani
word: mərkəz
lang: Azerbaijani
word: orta
lang: Bashkir
word: үҙәк
roman: üźək
lang: Bashkir
word: урта
roman: urta
lang: Basque
word: erdigune
lang: Belarusian
word: цэнтр
roman: centr
lang: Belarusian
word: цэ́нтар
roman: céntar
lang: Belarusian
word: сярэдзі́на
roman: sjaredzína
lang: Bengali
word: কেন্দ্র
roman: kendro
lang: Bulgarian
word: це́нтър
roman: céntǎr
lang: Bulgarian
word: сре́дище
roman: srédište
lang: Burmese
word: ဗဟို
roman: ba.hui
lang: Catalan
word: centre
lang: Chechen
word: йукъ
roman: juqʼ
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎠᏰᏟ
roman: ayetli
lang: Cheyenne
word: sétóve
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 中心
roman: zhōngxīn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 中央
roman: zhōngyāng
lang: Czech
word: střed
lang: Czech
word: centrum
lang: Danish
word: centrum
lang: Dutch
word: centrum
lang: Dutch
word: middelpunt
lang: Esperanto
word: centro
lang: Estonian
word: keskus
lang: Finnish
word: keskipiste
lang: French
word: centre
lang: West-Frisian
word: sintrum
lang: Galician
word: centro
lang: Georgian
word: ცენტრი
roman: cenṭri
lang: German
word: Zentrum
lang: German
word: Mitte
lang: German
word: Mittelpunkt
lang: Greek
word: κέντρο
roman: kéntro
lang: Gujarati
word: કેંદ્ર
roman: kendra
lang: Hebrew
word: מֶרְכָּז
roman: merkáz
lang: Hindi
word: केंद्र
roman: kendra
lang: Hindi
word: वस्त
roman: vast
lang: Hindi
word: मरकज़
roman: markaz
lang: Hindi
word: मरकज
roman: markaj
lang: Hungarian
word: középpont
lang: Hungarian
word: központ
lang: Icelandic
word: miðja
lang: Indonesian
word: pusat
lang: Irish
word: ionad
lang: Italian
word: centro
lang: Japanese
word: 中心
roman: chūshin
lang: Japanese
word: 円心
roman: enshin
lang: Japanese
word: 中央
roman: chūō
lang: Japanese
word: 真ん中
roman: mannaka
lang: Japanese
word: 真中
roman: manaka
lang: Japanese
word: 中子
roman: nakago
lang: Kazakh
word: орта
roman: orta
lang: Khmer
word: កណ្ដាល
roman: kɑɑkɑndaal
lang: Khmer
word: ទ្រូង
roman: truung
lang: Korean
word: 중심
roman: jungsim
lang: Korean
word: 중앙
roman: jung'ang
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ناوەند
roman: nawend
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: nawend
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: navend
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: merkez
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: senter
lang: Kyrgyz
word: борбор
roman: borbor
lang: Kyrgyz
word: орто
roman: orto
lang: Kyrgyz
word: центр
roman: tsentr
lang: Lao
word: ກາງ
roman: kāng
lang: Latin
word: centrum
lang: Latvian
word: centrs
lang: Latvian
word: vidus
lang: Lithuanian
word: centras
lang: Lithuanian
word: vidurys
lang: Macedonian
word: центар
roman: centar
lang: Macedonian
word: средина
roman: sredina
lang: Macedonian
word: средиште
roman: središte
lang: Malay
word: pusat
lang: Malayalam
word: കേന്ദ്രം
roman: kēndraṁ
lang: Māori
word: pokapū
lang: Māori
word: pūtahi
lang: Māori
word: pū
lang: Marathi
word: केंद्र
roman: kendra
lang: Mongolian
word: төв
roman: töv
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠲᠥᠪ
roman: töb
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: vèm
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sentrum
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: midtpunkt
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: центер
roman: center
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: штредзиско
roman: štredzisko
lang: Pashto
word: منځ
roman: manź
lang: Pashto
word: وسط
roman: wasat
lang: Pashto
word: مرکز
roman: markaz
lang: Iranian Persian
word: مَرْکَز
roman: markaz
lang: Iranian Persian
word: وَسَط
roman: vasat
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Meddpunkt
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Zentrum
lang: Polish
word: środek
lang: Polish
word: centrum
lang: Portuguese
word: centro
lang: Punjabi
word: ਕੇਂਦਰ
roman: kendar
lang: Romanian
word: centru
lang: Russian
word: центр
roman: centr
lang: Russian
word: середи́на
roman: seredína
lang: Russian
word: среди́на
roman: sredína
lang: Sanskrit
word: मध्य
roman: madhya
lang: Sanskrit
word: केन्द्रम्
roman: kendram
lang: Santali
word: ᱜᱚᱵᱷᱚ
roman: gôbhô
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: сре̏дӣште
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: це̏нтар
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: srȅdīšte
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: cȅntar
lang: Sherpa
word: གུང
roman: gung
lang: Sikkimese
word: དཀྱིལ
roman: dkyil
lang: Slovak
word: stred
lang: Slovak
word: centrum
lang: Slovene
word: središče
lang: Slovene
word: center
lang: Spanish
word: centro
lang: Swedish
word: mitt
lang: Swedish
word: mittpunkt
lang: Swedish
word: centrum
lang: Tagalog
word: gitna
lang: Tajik
word: марказ
roman: markaz
lang: Tajik
word: васат
roman: vasat
lang: Tatar
word: үзәк
roman: üzäk
lang: Tatar
word: урта
roman: urta
lang: Tatar
word: мәркәз
roman: märkäz
lang: Telugu
word: కేంద్రకం
roman: kēndrakaṁ
lang: Telugu
word: కేంద్రం
roman: kēndraṁ
lang: Thai
word: กลาง
roman: glaang
lang: Tibetan
word: དཀྱིལ
roman: dkyil
lang: Tibetan
word: གུང
roman: gung
lang: Turkish
word: merkez
lang: Turkish
word: orta
lang: Turkish
word: özek
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: مركز
roman: merkez
lang: Turkmen
word: merkez
lang: Turkmen
word: orta
lang: Ukrainian
word: центр
roman: centr
lang: Ukrainian
word: середи́на
roman: seredýna
lang: Urdu
word: مَرْکَز
roman: markaz
lang: Urdu
word: وَسْط
roman: vast
lang: Uyghur
word: مەركەز
roman: merkez
lang: Uzbek
word: markaz
lang: Vietnamese
word: trung tâm
lang: Vietnamese
word: tâm
lang: Welsh
word: canol
lang: Yiddish
word: צענטער
roman: tsenter
lang: Zazaki
word: merkez
lang: Zazaki
word: kenter
lang: Afrikaans
word: sentrum
lang: Arabic
word: مَرْكَز
roman: markaz
lang: Armenian
word: կենտրոն
roman: kentron
lang: Bulgarian
word: це́нтър
roman: céntǎr
lang: Cheyenne
word: sétóve
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 中心
roman: zhōngxīn
lang: Czech
word: střed
lang: Dutch
word: centrum
lang: Dutch
word: middelpunt
lang: Finnish
word: keskipiste
lang: French
word: centre
lang: West-Frisian
word: sintrum
lang: German
word: Zentrum
lang: German
word: Mitte
lang: German
word: Mittelpunkt
lang: Greek
word: κέντρο
roman: kéntro
lang: Hebrew
word: מֶרְכָּז
roman: merkáz
lang: Hungarian
word: középpont
lang: Hungarian
word: központ
lang: Icelandic
word: miðja
lang: Italian
word: centro
lang: Japanese
word: 中心
roman: chūshin
lang: Japanese
word: 球心
roman: kyūshin
lang: Korean
word: 중심
roman: jungsim
lang: Latin
word: centrum
lang: Latvian
word: centrs
lang: Lithuanian
word: centras
lang: Malay
word: pusat
lang: Malayalam
word: കേന്ദ്രം
roman: kēndraṁ
lang: Māori
word: pūtahi
lang: Marathi
word: केंद्र
roman: kendra
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sentrum
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: midtpunkt
lang: Pashto
word: منځ
roman: manź
lang: Iranian Persian
word: مَرْکَز
roman: markaz
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Zentrum
lang: Polish
word: środek
lang: Portuguese
word: centro
lang: Russian
word: центр
roman: centr
lang: Sanskrit
word: मध्य
roman: madhya
lang: Slovak
word: stred
lang: Slovene
word: središče
lang: Spanish
word: centro
lang: Swedish
word: mitt
lang: Swedish
word: mittpunkt
lang: Swedish
word: centrum
lang: Tagalog
word: gitna
lang: Tatar
word: үзәк
roman: üzäk
lang: Tatar
word: мәркәз
roman: märkäz
lang: Telugu
word: కేంద్రకం
roman: kēndrakaṁ
lang: Telugu
word: కేంద్రం
roman: kēndraṁ
lang: Thai
word: กลาง
roman: glaang
lang: Turkish
word: merkez
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: مركز
roman: merkez
lang: Vietnamese
word: trung tâm
lang: Vietnamese
word: tâm
lang: Welsh
word: canol
lang: Yiddish
word: צענטער
roman: tsenter
lang: Zazaki
word: werte (diq)
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎠᏰᏟ
roman: ayetli
lang: Cheyenne
word: sétóve
lang: Finnish
word: keskikohta
lang: Finnish
word: keskusta
lang: Finnish
word: keskialue
lang: Indonesian
word: tengah
lang: Latin
word: centrum
lang: Latin
word: medium
lang: Malayalam
word: മധ്യം
roman: madhyaṁ
lang: Māori
word: pokapū
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kjerne
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Meddpunkt
lang: Polish
word: centrum
lang: Sanskrit
word: मध्य
roman: madhya
lang: Slovak
word: stred
lang: Zazaki
word: miyan (diq)
lang: Arabic
word: مَرْكَز
roman: markaz
lang: Armenian
word: կենտրոն
roman: kentron
lang: Bulgarian
word: среда́
roman: sredá
lang: Bulgarian
word: це́нтър
roman: céntǎr
lang: Catalan
word: centre
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 中心
roman: zhōngxīn
lang: Dutch
word: centrum
lang: Finnish
word: keskipiste
lang: French
word: centre de masse
lang: West-Frisian
word: sintrum
lang: German
word: Zentrum
lang: German
word: Mitte
lang: Greek
word: κέντρο
roman: kéntro
lang: Hebrew
word: מרכז כובד
lang: Icelandic
word: miðja
lang: Japanese
word: 重心
roman: jūshin
lang: Korean
word: 중심
roman: jungsim
lang: Latin
word: centrum
lang: Latvian
word: centrs
lang: Malay
word: pusat
lang: Pashto
word: منځ
roman: manź
lang: Iranian Persian
word: مَرْکَز
roman: markaz
lang: Polish
word: środek
lang: Portuguese
word: centro
lang: Romanian
word: centru
lang: Russian
word: центр
roman: centr
lang: Slovak
word: stred
lang: Slovene
word: središče
lang: Spanish
word: centro
lang: Thai
word: กลาง
roman: glaang
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: مركز
roman: merkez
lang: Vietnamese
word: trọng tâm
lang: Welsh
word: canol
lang: Yiddish
word: צענטער
roman: tsenter