(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.
(n.) The middle or central portion of anything.
(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.
(n.) The earth.
(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.
(n.) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
(n.) One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
(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.
(v. i.) Alt. of Centre
(v. t.) Alt. of Centre
Example Sentences:
(1) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.
(2) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
(3) Of the 138 patients who were admitted to the study, only seventy-one (51 per cent) could be followed for an average of 3.5 years (a typical return rate of urban trauma centers).
(4) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
(5) The study included fifty children, aged six to fourteen years, selected from patients seeking routine dental care at Children's Hospital National Medical Center.
(6) By using these methods, it was clearly indicated that these factors such as TDF of rectum, Z-coordinate of weighted geometric center (WGC-Z), the dose of whole pelvic irradiation, history of chemotherapy and Treponema pallidum hemoagglutination test (TPHA) were important for occurrence of rectal complication.
(7) This paper describes the demographic, clinical, and psychosocial characteristics of a sample of chronically mentally ill clients at a large comprehensive community mental health center.
(8) Cloacal exstrophy, centered on the maldevelopment of the primitive streak mesoderm and cloacal membrane, results in bladder and intestinal exstrophy, omphalocele, gender confusion, and hindgut deformity.
(9) T cells admixed in the germinal centers were overwhelmingly of the T-helper type.
(10) Changing conditions call for each Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) to develop a survival strategy based on its own standards and values.
(11) Of the 385 records reviewed for this study, the majority (87%) received their primary care at community health centers or the hospital's own outpatient clinics.
(12) Radiologic abnormalities included an unusual "moth-eaten" appearance of the markedly short long bones, bizzare ectopic ossification centers, and marked platyspondyly with unusual ossification centers.
(13) The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was a temporal association between the introduction of a Fetal Diagnostic and Treatment Center and changes in fetal mortality.
(14) The lack of TBM prior to germinal center development and their absence in aged mice are inconsistent with the concept that TBM are required for the induction of the germinal center reaction.
(15) Continuity of care programs, such as that developed by the Pain Service of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York), with good communication and liaison work between hospital and community, add a much needed dimension to the pain management of these patients in the home.
(16) In contrast, Sca-2 did not appear to stain peripheral T lymphocytes, but recognized only a subset of B lymphocytes which could be localized by immunohistochemistry to germinal centers.
(17) An AT-rich stretch is centered at position -31 with respect to the transcription initiation site, and a potential CCAAT box is centered at position -138.
(18) Patient care data for patients treated at the medical center are first recorded on paper charts and then coded and transferred to computer.
(19) Intrinsic bending of the 527-bp fragment (bend center approximately at bp 240) was represented as a composite of at least two components located near bp 170 and near bp 260.
(20) The shading of the optoelectronic system had a coefficient of variation (CV) of 1.42% for measurements in the center of the displayed area, but a CV of 3.55% for measurements over the whole monitor area.
Implosion
Definition:
(n.) A burstion inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted; -- contrasted with explosion.
(n.) A sudden compression of the air in the mouth, simultaneously with and affecting the sound made by the closure of the organs in uttering p, t, or k, at the end of a syllable (see Guide to Pronunciation, //159, 189); also, a similar compression made by an upward thrust of the larynx without any accompanying explosive action, as in the peculiar sound of b, d, and g, heard in Southern Germany.
Example Sentences:
(1) His message suggested a Grexit was now inevitable as he stressed the need for EU humanitarian programmes to forestall social implosion in Greece.
(2) Thus the main population explosion – or to give it its proper name, the population implosion – is still to come.
(3) While the Sala news was significant, it was overshadowed by the implosion of Raggi’s administration, in part because she holds the office with the highest profile in her party.
(4) Towards the end there's a sequence in which David Carr, the compellingly watchable media correspondent, is probing away at the circumstances behind the near-implosion of the Tribune company under its new owners, who seem to care little for the company's core journalistic traditions or mission.
(5) This paper presents the theoretical bases of the counterconditioning techniques of systematic desensitization and the extinction techniques of implosion therapy and flooding.
(6) If the workforce implosion includes the departure of senior managers, there is a loss of knowledge of history and previous learning and an inevitable hiatus in building a new organisational culture.
(7) The management of Abbey, Buxton said, had presided over the "implosion of the business, the need for an entirely new management team" and an offer from Santander that was lower than the two that were rejected.
(8) But pollsters, party operatives and confidantes agreed: the best set-up for a Biden moment would be a Clinton implosion – and it might be near.
(9) But after Walker’s campaign implosion showed that Super Pac money alone cannot compensate for a lack of buzz among supporters, Bush’s strategy may prove the ultimate test of whether the one-time establishment favourite can strong-arm himself back into the lead.
(10) On the face of it, the Hoosiers don't seem like victims of the music industry's implosion: the London-based band were given the full-on major label push in 2007, and sold a million records.
(11) Regardless, his 11-pitch at-bat against Clayton Kershaw in Game Six of the NLCS which set the stage for his implosion is now a moment of St Louis lore.
(12) We’ve always known there was a group of people within the Coalition who would have rather died with Tony Abbott than lived with Malcolm Turnbull, but it’s still startling to watch a political party indulging a public implosion when the stakes are so very high.
(13) Most experts attribute the revival to one factor above all: the adoption of multiple currencies, principally the US dollar, after the Zimbabwean dollar's implosion.
(14) 'It has no chance': Socialist party heading for implosion in French elections Read more The final-round battle between the two men will be a bruising encounter between two wings of the Socialist party, which has been bitterly divided throughout François Hollande’s troubled presidency.
(15) Somalia's implosion has not just threatened its own people: analysts say al-Shabaab poses a serious threat to the region.
(16) "A stalemate slanting towards the regime, or a situation that really resembles a rebel implosion.
(17) Despite cuts in educational budgets, increased student fees and the general implosion of the social fabric, the addiction persists.
(18) The immersion in water made a strong implosion visible which may result in considerable tissue damage in vivo.
(19) The new government was effectively imposed by Italy's octogenarian president Giorgio Napolitano , who was returned to an extraordinary second seven-year term in office by the implosion of the PD during the parliamentary presidential voting.
(20) Those conditions predate the current implosion in the euro group .