Definitions for centering

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centering cen·ter·ing

Spelling: [sen-ter-ing]

IPA: /ˈsɛn tər ɪŋ/

Centering is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 260 anagrams from letters in centering (ceeginnrt).

Definitions for centering

noun

1. a temporary framework for supporting a masonry arch during construction until it is able to stand by itself.
2. Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
3. a point, pivot, axis, etc., around which anything rotates or revolves:
4. the source of an influence, action, force, etc.:
5. a point, place, person, etc., upon which interest, emotion, etc., focuses:
6. a principal point, place, or object:
7. a building or part of a building used as a meeting place for a particular group or having facilities for certain activities:
8. an office or other facility providing a specific service or dealing with a particular emergency:
9. a person, thing, group, etc., occupying the middle position, especially a body of troops.
10. the core or middle of anything:
11. a store or establishment devoted to a particular subject or hobby, carrying supplies, materials, tools, and books as well as offering guidance and advice:
12. shopping center.
13. (usually initial capital letter) Government. the part of a legislative assembly, especially in continental Europe, that sits in the center of the chamber, a position customarily assigned to members of the legislature who hold political views intermediate between those of the Right and Left. the members of such an assembly who sit in the Center. the political position of persons who hold moderate views. politically moderate persons, taken collectively; Centrists; middle-of-the-roaders:
14. Football. a lineman who occupies a position in the middle of the line and who puts the ball into play by tossing it between his legs to a back. the position played by this lineman.
15. Basketball. a player who participates in a center jump. the position of the player in the center of the court, where the center jump takes place at the beginning of play.
16. Ice Hockey. a player who participates in a face-off at the beginning of play.
17. Baseball. center field.
18. Physiology. a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific organic process:
19. Mathematics. the mean position of a figure or system. the set of elements of a group that commute with every element of the group.
20. Machinery. a tapered rod, mounted in the headstock spindle (live center) or the tailstock spindle (dead center) of a lathe, upon which the work to be turned is placed. one of two similar points on some other machine, as a planing machine, enabling an object to be turned on its axis. a tapered indentation, in a piece to be turned on a lathe, into which a center is fitted.

Idioms

1. on center, from the centerline or midpoint of a structural member, an area of a plan, etc., to that of a similar member, area, etc.: Abbreviation: o.c.

verb (used with object)

1. to place in or on a center:
2. to collect to or around a center; focus:
3. to determine or mark the center of:
4. to adjust, shape, or modify (an object, part, etc.) so that its axis or the like is in a central or normal position:
5. to place (an object, part, etc.) so as to be equidistant from all bordering or adjacent areas.
6. Football. snap (def 21).
7. to pass (a basketball, hockey puck, etc.) from any place along the periphery toward the middle of the playing area.

verb (used without object)

1. to be at or come to a center.
2. to come to a focus; converge; concentrate (followed by at, about, around, in, or on):
3. to gather or accumulate in a cluster; collect (followed by at, about, around, in, or on):

Origin of centering

First recorded in 1760-70; center + -ing¹

Examples for centering

Put the other way, it is by centering down that we still the body-mind.

In fact, the scene was a rather optimistic one, centering on pride that Lonegan had outperformed initial expectations.

And now Drew produced his own hidden weapon, centering it on Hatch.

It was my lodestone, my centering point, my story as a journalist covering Germany and the East Bloc.

This may be followed up by centering the end of a round bar so as to make it true.

The centering and the beam and girder forms were supported by 6×6-in.

German gimlet-bits, Fig. 128, have the advantage of centering well.

The lumber of the centering for the vaulting was spruce for the ribs and posts, and 1-in.

He ignored them, centering his attention on the headman himself.

Two-thirds of this labor was on the centering or $0.36 per lin.