high-angle fire | fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range |
angle bracket angle iron | an L-shaped metal bracket |
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 |
high-angle gun | a cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges |
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 |
wide-angle lens fisheye lens | a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length), produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery |
camera angle | the point of view of a camera |
dead center dead centre | the position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque |
center of curvature centre of curvature | the center of the circle of curvature |
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 |
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 |
slant angle | a biased way of looking at or presenting something |
center spread centre spread | the spread at the center of a magazine |
bracket angle bracket | either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material |
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 |
hour angle | the angular distance along the celestial equator from the observer's meridian to the hour circle of a given celestial body |
Centre | a low-lying region in central France |
Angle | a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons |
straight angle | an angle ofdegrees |
helix angle | the constant angle at which a helix cuts the elements of a cylinder or cone |
angle | the space between two lines or planes that intersect, the inclination of one line to another, measured in degrees or radians |
hour angle HA | (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing, the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day |
plane angle | an angle formed by two straight lines (in the same plane) |
spherical angle | an angle formed at the intersection of the arcs of two great circles |
solid angle | an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting at a common point (the vertex) |
inclination angle of inclination | (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis) |
reentrant angle reentering angle | an interior angle of a polygon that is greater thandegrees |
salient angle | an angle pointing outward, an interior angle of a polygon that is less thandegrees |
interior angle internal angle | the angle inside two adjacent sides of a polygon |
exterior angle external angle | the supplement of an interior angle of a polygon |
angle of incidence incidence angle | the angle that a line makes with a line perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence |
angle of attack | the acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil |
critical angle | the smallest angle of incidence for which light is totally reflected |
angle of reflection | the angle between a reflected ray and a line perpendicular to the reflecting surface at the point of incidence |