Definition of center

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Center (n.) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.

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Diadem :: Diadem (n.) An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center..
Pentaptych :: Pentaptych (n.) A picture, or combination of pictures, consisting of a centerpiece and double folding doors or wings, as for an altarpiece..
Epergne :: Epergne (n.) A centerpiece for table decoration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design..
Centroid :: Centroid (n.) The center of mass, inertia, or gravity of a body or system of bodies..
Nucleate :: Nucleate (v. t.) To gather, as about a nucleus or center..
Porpita :: Porpita (n.) A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst..
Centerboard :: Centerboard (n.) Alt. of Centreboar.
Papillulate :: Papillulate (a.) Having a minute papilla in the center of a larger elevation or depression.
Eye :: Eye (n.) The center of a target; the bull's-eye.
Down :: Down (adv.) In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up.
Span :: Span (v. t.) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used..
Heliocentrical :: Heliocentrical (a.) pertaining to the sun's center, or appearing to be seen from it; having, or relating to, the sun as a center; -- opposed to geocentrical..
Concentrate :: Concentrate (v. i.) To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate; as, population tends to concentrate in cities..
Centre :: Centre (v. i.) To be placed in a center; to be central.
Circle :: Circle (n.) A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center..
Turn :: Turn (v. t.) To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head..
Centrolinead :: Centrolinead (n.) An instrument for drawing lines through a point, or lines converging to a center..
Center :: Center (v. i.) Alt. of Centr.
Umbilical :: Umbilical (n.) Pertaining to the center; central.
Centripetency :: Centripetency (n.) Tendency toward the center.
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