Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a common center.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a common center: as, concentric circles, spheres, etc.
- noun One of a number of circles or spheres having a common center.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which has a common center with something else.
- adjective Having a common center, as circles of different size, one within another.
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- adjective geometry Having a common
center . - adjective physiology (of a motion) in the direction of contraction of a muscle. (E.g. extension of the lower arm via the elbow joint while contracting the
triceps and other elbow extensor muscles; closing of the jaw while flexing themasseter ).
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- adjective having a common center
Etymologies
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Examples
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When it comes to location, the value of properties generally conforms to what I call the concentric circle theory.
Nothing Down for the 2000s Robert G. Allen 2004
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SHEPHERD: We often see an intensification phase when we see these regenerating eye walls, what we call concentric eye walls.
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The portrayal of Bob and his boat could perhaps be said to reach inward -- although this is done through concentration and indirection, not through the tedium of the "free indirect" method -- as well as to expand outward and around Bob in concentric circles of thinly-layered exposition, but it could hardly be said to ever really push forward into a plotted narrative.
Experimental Fiction 2010
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As Asian immigration radiated outward in concentric circles from Monterey Park, the culture wars moved to new staging grounds.
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Nearby, a large group of Asians, whites and Hispanics danced and sang in concentric circles around guitarists and drummers, chanting, "Hallelujah" under a banner for the Iglesia Inmaculado Corazon de Maria from Newark, N.J. Terry Perez of Annandale, Va., a naturalized U.S. citizen from the Philippines, called the multiethnic crowd "a little bit of the United Nations."
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Either way, the site does not show a pattern suggesting that it spread gradually outwards in concentric circles from a central point, as one might expect, he notes.
Mesopotamian City Grew Regardless of Kingly Rule | Impact Lab 2007
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Since the Soviet Union was itself largely closed and compartmentalized, the nuclear cities stood within concentric layers of defenses like fortresses within fortresses, like nested Russian dolls.
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Since the Soviet Union was itself largely closed and compartmentalized, the nuclear cities stood within concentric layers of defenses like fortresses within fortresses, like nested Russian dolls.
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Then, using a very sharp paring knife, cut off the top and bottom, where the shoots and root ends are, and then carefully remove the peel in concentric circles.
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Arrange the fruit slices in concentric circles over the crumbs, overlapping slightly, still leaving the 2 inch border.
chained_bear commented on the word concentric
In castle architecture, castles having two parallel lines of defense, the outer wall closely surrounding the inner.
August 24, 2008