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dictionary.com wrote:cen·tre
Chiefly British
Variant of center.

dictionary.com wrote:cen·ter

A point or place that is equally distant from the sides or outer boundaries of something; the middle: the center of a stage.
A point equidistant from the vertices of a regular polygon.
A point equidistant from all points on the circumference of a circle or on the surface of a sphere.
A point around which something rotates or revolves: The sun is the center of our solar system.
A part of an object that is surrounded by the rest; a core: chocolates with soft centers.
A place where a particular activity or service is concentrated: a medical center.
A point of origin, as of influence, ideas, or actions: a center of power; a center of unrest.
An area of dense population: a metropolitan center.
A person or thing that is the chief object of attention, interest, activity, or emotion.
A person, object, or group occupying a middle position.
often Center A political group or a set of policies representing a moderate view between those of the right and the left.
Physiology. A group of neurons in the central nervous system that control a particular function: the vasomotor center.
Sports. A player who holds a middle position on the field, court, or forward line in some team sports, such as football and basketball.
Baseball. Center field.
A small conical hole made in a piece of work with a center punch so that a drill can be accurately positioned within it.
A bar with a conical point used to support work, as during turning on a lathe.
Architecture. A centering.

Wikipedia.org wrote:Center (American English) or centre (Commonwealth English) has a number of meanings.

1. In geometry, a point that is well-distant from the boundaries of a figure. For instance, for a circle, the center is defined as the point equidistant from all points on the circle's boundary. Similar definitions can be made for other shapes in various geometries, though for arbitrary complex shapes there may be several definitions considered appropriate in some circumstances.

See also: Point groups in three dimensions#Center of symmetry

1. The standard name given to a position on the field in several sports, such as American football, basketball, netball, amongst others.

Further information: center (American football), and Center (basketball), and Rugby union positions, and center (ice hockey), and [[]], and [[]], and [[]], and [[]], and [[]]

1. The centre of power in a country is the capital.
2. Major social or political movements often have one or more centers or headquarters around which they are focussed and from where they are directed.
3. Centre is a low-lying region of France in the centre of the country.
4. Cities often are said to have a center.
5. In abstract algebra, the centre of a group is the subgroup consisting of those elements which commute with all other elements. Similar definitions of center apply to other algebraic structures, for example, center (algebra).
6. In politics, the Centrism is the middle ground between the left wing and the right wing. (See also Center Party.)
7. In music, in tonal music the central or most important pitch is the tonic, while in atonal music a pitch which acts referentially or the centre of an interval cycle is a pitch centre.
8. Is a liberal arts college in Danville, KY, US.
9. There are several towns named Center in the United States:
* Center, Colorado
* Center, Missouri
* Center, Nebraska
* Center, North Dakota
* Center, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
* Center, Rock County, Wisconsin
* Center, Texas

There are also places named Centerville and Central.

10. In India, the Center refers to federal (all-India) politics at New Delhi.
11. In chess, the center refers to either the central four squares (d4,e4,d5,e5) or the central 16 squares (c3-c6,d3-d6,e3-e6,f3-f6), which are strategically important in all phases of the game. Pieces in the center generally possess more activity and have a greater impact on the game than those that do not.
12. Center is also the name a famous Russian-speaking band
13. Center refers to centers as used in machining operations.
14. A center can also mean a department within a hospital or other public service building. For instance: The physiotherapy center, the outpatients' center.
15. A center can also be a building or group of buildings dedicated to a particular purpose, such as: The shopping center, the dance center, the arts center, the community center, the information center, the garden center.
16. In the Fourth Way philosophy of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky a centre is a human biological, psychological and spiritual nexus of energy process, equivilent to the concept of a Chakra.
17. To center content on Wikipedia, use the code <center> and </center>

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