axis axis of rotation | the center around which something rotates |
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 |
dumb bomb gravity bomb | a bomb that falls because of gravity and is not guided to a target |
gravimeter gravity meter | a measuring instrument for measuring variations in the gravitational field of the earth |
Herschelian telescope off-axis reflector | a reflecting telescope with the mirror slightly tilted to throw the image to the side where it can be viewed |
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 |
graveness gravity sobriety soberness somberness sombreness | a manner that is serious and solemn |
specific gravity | the density of a substance relative to the density of water |
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 |
axis axis vertebra | the nd cervical vertebra, serves as a pivot for turning the head |
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 |
theory of gravitation theory of gravity gravitational theory Newton's theory of gravitation | (physics) the theory that any two particles of matter attract one another with a force directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them |
axis | a straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions |
coordinate axis | one of the fixed reference lines of a coordinate system |
x-axis | the horizontal axis in a plane coordinate system |
y-axis | the vertical axis in a plane coordinate system |
z-axis | the third axis in a -dimensional coordinate system |
major axis | the longest axis of an ellipse or ellipsoid, passes through the two foci |
semimajor axis | one-half the major axis of an ellipse, the distance from the center of an ellipse to one end |
minor axis | the shorter or shortest axis of an ellipse or ellipsoid |
semiminor axis | one-half the minor axis of an ellipse |
principal axis optic axis | a line that passes through the center of curvature of a lens so that light is neither reflected nor refracted, in a normal eye the optic axis is the direction in which objects are seen most distinctly |
optic axis | in a doubly refracting crystal, the line in the direction of which no double refraction occurs, a crystal may have either one or two optic axes |
center spread centre spread | the spread at the center of a magazine |
gravity wave gravitation wave | (physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light |
gravity solemnity | a solemn and dignified feeling |
center centre | the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering |
bloc axis | a group of countries in special alliance |
Axis | in World War II the alliance of Germany and Italy in which later included Japan and other nations, the Axis opposed the Allies in World War II |
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 |
Centre | a low-lying region in central France |
normal fault gravity fault common fault | an inclined fault in which the hanging wall appears to have slipped downward relative to the footwall |
gravity gravitation gravitational attraction gravitational force | (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe, especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface, the more remote the body the less the gravity, the gravitation between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love--Albert Einstein |