Definitions for dead-center

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IPA: /ˈsɛn tər/

Dead-Center is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 387 anagrams from letters in dead-center (-acddeeenrt).

Definitions for dead-center

noun

1. Also called dead point. (in a reciprocating engine) either of two positions at which the crank cannot be turned by the connecting rod, occurring at each end of a stroke when the crank and connecting rod are in the same line.
2. See under center (def 19a).
3. 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.
4. a point, pivot, axis, etc., around which anything rotates or revolves:
5. the source of an influence, action, force, etc.:
6. a point, place, person, etc., upon which interest, emotion, etc., focuses:
7. a principal point, place, or object:
8. a building or part of a building used as a meeting place for a particular group or having facilities for certain activities:
9. an office or other facility providing a specific service or dealing with a particular emergency:
10. a person, thing, group, etc., occupying the middle position, especially a body of troops.
11. the core or middle of anything:
12. a store or establishment devoted to a particular subject or hobby, carrying supplies, materials, tools, and books as well as offering guidance and advice:
13. shopping center.
14. (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:
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. Ice Hockey. a player who participates in a face-off at the beginning of play.
18. Baseball. center field.
19. Physiology. a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific organic process:
20. Mathematics. the mean position of a figure or system. the set of elements of a group that commute with every element of the group.
21. 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 dead-center

First recorded in 1870-75

Examples for dead-center

The trunk of a tree split the field of view as close to dead center as it could be.

I eyed her dead center, eye to eye until she couldn't take it any more.

Come on, though, Morey—give me a hand—I got you off dead center.

With a sharp pencil mark off the required length, starting from the dead center end.

In the dead center of the small black bull's-eye was a small white dot.

Away from the dead center the ravines were body-deep in chaparral, and the hillsides stood gray-green with old cactus.

It brought the dot up to dead center point in the locator plate and stopped.

The first mark should be just far enough in on the cylinder to insure cutting past the point of the dead center.

When this line is level the crank will be upon its dead center.

At this point it is well to state that the small end of all work should be turned at the dead center.