Definition of Center

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Center

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.

The middle or central portion of anything.

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.

The earth.

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.

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

One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.

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.

Alt. of Centre

Alt. of seal

Alt. of punch

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Center Quotations

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.
Confucius

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Lao Tzu

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
Thomas Merton

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
Robert Collier

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
Robert Collier

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
Joe Biden

Center Translations

center in Dutch is binnenste, centrum, middelpunt
center in Finnish is keskus
center in French is centrez, centrent, centrons, centre, centrer
center in German is Mittelpunkt, zentrieren, zentrale
center in Italian is centrare
center in Norwegian is sentrum
center in Portuguese is centro
center in Spanish is centro
center in Swedish is centrum

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