diversion deviation digression deflection deflexion divagation | a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern), a diversion from the main highway, a digression into irrelevant details, a deflection from his goal |
deviation deviance | deviate behavior |
bullpen detention cell detention centre | a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily |
call center call centre | a center equipped to handle a large volume of telephone calls (especially for taking orders or serving customers) |
center centre | a building dedicated to a particular activity, they were raising money to build a new center for research |
center bit centre bit | a bit with a sharp center point for guidance and two side cutters |
plaza mall center shopping mall shopping center shopping centre | mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers, usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area, a modern version of the traditional marketplace, a good plaza should have a movie house, they spent their weekends at the local malls |
deviation | the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances |
dead center dead centre | the position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque |
distance | the property created by the space between two objects or points |
mean distance | the arithmetic mean of the maximum and minimum distances of a celestial body (satellite or secondary star) from its primary |
focal distance focal length | the distance from a lens to its focus |
hyperfocal distance | the distance in front of a lens that is focused at infinity beyond which all objects are well defined and clear |
center of curvature centre of curvature | the center of the circle of curvature |
distance length | size of the gap between two places, the distance from New York to Chicago, he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points |
skip distance | the shortest distance that permits radio signals (of a given frequency) to travel from the transmitter to the receiver by reflection from the ionosphere |
center centre nerve center nerve centre | a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process, in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere |
distance vision | vision for objects that afeet or more from the viewer |
center centre center of attention centre of attention | the object upon which interest and attention focuses, his stories made him the center of the party |
kernel substance core center centre essence gist heart heart and soul inwardness marrow meat nub pith sum nitty-gritty f a e a c | the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience, the gist of the prosecutor's argument, the heart and soul of the Republican Party, the nub of the story |
middle distance | the part of a scene between the foreground and the background |
deviation | the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function |
mean deviation mean deviation from the mean | the arithmetic mean of the absolute values of deviations from the mean of a distribution |
standard deviation | the square root of the variance |
center spread centre spread | the spread at the center of a magazine |
long distance long-distance call trunk call | a telephone call made outside the local calling area, I talked to her by long distance |
deviation divergence departure difference | a variation that deviates from the standard or norm, the deviation from the mean |
distance aloofness | indifference by personal withdrawal, emotional distance |
center centre | the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering |
United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Centre for International Crime Prevention | the United Nations office responsible for crime prevention and criminal justice and law reform |
center centre | a place where some particular activity is concentrated, they received messages from several centers |
nerve center nerve centre | a center that provides information and control, the nerve center of the diamond industry is in Amsterdam |
center centre midpoint | a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure |
center of buoyancy centre of buoyancy center of immersion centre of immersion | (physics) the center of mass of the immersed part of ship or other floating object |
center of gravity centre of gravity | the point within something at which gravity can be considered to act, in uniform gravity it is equal to the center of mass |
center of flotation centre of flotation | the center of gravity of a floating object |
center of mass centre of mass | point representing the mean position of the matter in a body |
center centre middle heart eye | an area that is approximately central within some larger region, it is in the center of town, they ran forward into the heart of the struggle, they were in the eye of the storm |
center stage centre stage | the central area on a theater stage |
city center city centre central city | the central part of a city |
storm center storm centre | the central area or place of lowest barometric pressure within a storm |
distance | a distant region, I could see it in the distance |
Centre | a low-lying region in central France |
marathoner marathon runner road runner long-distance runner | someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons) |
angular distance | the angular separation between two objects as perceived by an observer, he recorded angular distances between the stars |
center stage centre stage | a position of prominence or importance |
storm center storm centre | a center of trouble or disturbance |
distance space | the interval between two times, the distance from birth to death, it all happened in the space ofminutes |
distance | a remote point in time, if that happens it will be at some distance in the future, at a distance of ten years he had forgotten many of the details |
concentrate focus center centre pore rivet | direct one's attention on something, Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies |