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Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points. Central force (Math.), a force acting upon a body towards or away from a fixed or movable center. -- Center sun (Astron.), a nam…

The state of being central; tendency towards a center. Meantime there is a great centrality, a centripetence equal to the centrifugence. R. W. Emerson.

To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control. [To] centralize the power of government. Bancroft.

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Placed in the center or middle; central. At York or some other centrical place. Sir W. Scott. -- Cen"tric*al*ly, adv. -- Cen"tric*al*ness, n.

Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.

Tending, or causing, to approach the center.

Tendency toward the center.

Relating to the center of gravity, or to the process of finding it. Centrobaric method (Math.), a process invented for the purpose of measuring the area or the volume generated by the rotation of a line or surface about a fixed axis, depending upon the principle that every figure formed by the revolution of a line or s…

es having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.

The center of mass, inertia, or gravity of a body or system of bodies.

Having the food yolk placed at the center of the ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal. Balfour.

An instrument for drawing lines through a point, or lines converging to a center.

Converging to a center; -- applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center.

A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center. Marshall Hall.

the pollen tube penetrates to the embryosac through the tissue of the chalaza, instead of entering through the micropyle. It was originally discovered by Treub in Casuarina, and has since been found to occur regularly in the families Betulaceæ and Juglandaceæ. Partial chalazogamy is found in Ulmus, the tube here penetr…

Any water, liquid, or medicine, into which iron enters as an ingredient.

In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.

ce something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one.

A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun.