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- Center - n. - A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.
- Center - n. - The middle or central portion of anything.
- Center - n. - A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction.
- Center - n. - The earth.
- Center - n. - Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left.
- Center - n. - A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
- Center - n. - One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
- Center - n. - A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
- Center - v. i. - Alt. of Centre
- Center - v. t. - Alt. of Centre
- Centerbit - n. - Alt. of Centrebit
- Centerboard - n. - Alt. of Centreboard
- Centered - imp. & p. p. - of Centre
- Centerfire cartridge - - See under Cartridge.
- Centering - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Centre
- Centering - n. - Same as Center, n., 6.
- Centerpiece - n. - Alt. of Centrepiece
- Eccentric - n. - A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius.
- Centrobaric - a. - Relating to the center of gravity, or to the process of finding it.
- Circumcenter - n. - The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.
- Ventral - a. - Of or pertaining to that surface of a carpel, petal, etc., which faces toward the center of a flower.
- Sun - n. - Any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs.
- Pith - n. - The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue.
- Core - n. - The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square.
- Retraction - n. - The state or condition of a part when drawn back, or towards the center of the body.
- Umbilicus - n. - A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
- Vortex - n. - A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy.
- Dipleidoscope - n. - An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian.
- Amplitude - n. - The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator.
- Centralize - v. t. - To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.
- Dove plant - - A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove; -- called also Holy Spirit plant.
- Principal - n. - One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
- Deferent - n. - An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.
- Reredos - n. - The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls.
- Geocentrical - a. - Having reference to the center of the earth.
- Decentralize - v. t. - To prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); -- esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs.
- Opeidoscope - n. - An instrument, consisting of a tube having one end open and the other end covered with a thin flexible membrance to the center of which is attached a small mirror. It is used for exhibiting upon a screen, by means of rays reflected from the mirror, the vibratory motions caused by sounds produced at the open end of the tube, as by speaking or singing into it.
- Egoism - n. - Excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism.
- Cyclone - n. - A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour.
- Demigorge - n. - Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.
- Abeam - adv. - On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side.
- Semidiameter - n. - Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.
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- H7130 קֶרֶב - 7130 קֶרֶב - קֶרֶב - - qereb - keh'-reb - from קָרַב; properly, the nearest part, i.e. the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition); [idiom] among, [idiom] before, bowels, [idiom] unto charge, [phrase] eat (up), [idiom] heart, [idiom] him, [idiom] in, inward ([idiom] -ly, part, -s, thought), midst, [phrase] out of, purtenance, [idiom] therein, [idiom] through, [idiom] within self. - Noun Masculine - heb