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verb

Centre, Center v. i. (past & past part. centered or centred; pres. part. centering or centring)

To be placed in a center; to be central.

To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center. "Where there is no visible truth wherein to center, error is as wide as men's fancies." "Our hopes must center in ourselves alone."

noun

Centering n. (Written also centring) (Arch.) Same as Center, n., 6.

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Etymology of 'Centering'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— Taboo and Genetics • Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard

... and Public Lands, the hot springs of Arkansas, and the asylum for the insane for the District of Columbia do not appear to have any natural affiliation. The result has been that the bureaus have stood up as independent entities, and I have sought to bring them together, centering in ...

— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane

... she was three months old, anxious thoughts began to intrude, all centering round the question in what manner the child was to be brought up. Certainly there was time enough to think of this, as Ethelwyn constantly reminded me; but what made me anxious was that I could not ...

— The Seaboard Parish Volume 1 • George MacDonald

... the microscope, centering the specimen with a turn of the stage adjustment screw. "Poor Ihjel was right when he said this planet was exobiologically fascinating. This is a gastropod, a lot like Odostomia, but it has parasitical ...

— Planet of the Damned • Harry Harrison

... Yegg, and Joe had parted company with Kansas Shorty and Jim, they walked leisurely southward upon the railroad track. For some time their conversation lagged, as Slippery was absorbed in thoughts centering upon the boy who was walking by his side. Slippery had up to this moment lived strictly in accord with the laws laid down by the "Code of Crime", the rules of which, although not printed and bound into a costly volume, nor even written, are nevertheless strictly ...

— The Trail of the Tramp • A-No. 1 (AKA Leon Ray Livingston)

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