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CENTERED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being or placed in the center
Classified under:
Similar:
central (in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb center
Context examples:
It was, however, in the larger animals, and especially in the larger animals supposed to have been long extinct, that the interest of the public was naturally centered.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 3, 2016 using a spectral filter which preferentially admits wavelengths of ultraviolet light centered at 338 nanometers.
(Regarding Rhea, NASA)
An accretion disk is a spiraling mass of material centered around a monumental source of gravity consuming interstellar material–what researchers have theorized is a black hole.
(Astronomers Study How Quasars Are Powered by Accretion Disks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The image is an orthographic projection centered on 67.19 degrees north latitude, 212.67 degrees west longitude.
(Cassini's Final View of Titan's Northern Lakes and Seas, NASA)
This view is centered roughly on the area that will be seen close-up during New Horizons’ July 14 closest approach.
(A “Heart” from Pluto as Flyby Begins, NASA)
A carbohydrate comprised of three to ten monosaccharides joined by ether bridges (covalent bonds centered by an oxygen).
(Oligosaccharide, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)
A carbohydrate comprised of eleven or more monosaccharides joined by ether bridges (covalent bonds centered by an oxygen).
(Dietary Polysaccharide, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)
Upon hydrolysis of artesunate's active endoperoxide bridge moiety by liberated heme in parasite-infected red blood cells, reactive oxygen species and carbon-centered radicals form, which have been shown to damage and kill parasitic organisms.
(Artesunate, NCI Thesaurus)
Or you may be ready to start your own podcast series, app, or blog or work on any other project centered on one of the communicative arts.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The soft coat is well feathered and comes in four colors varieties: King Charles (black and tan), Ruby (solid red, sometimes with a few white hairs or small white patch on the chest), Blenheim (white with red markings, often with a red thumb print centered on the top of the head), and Prince Charles (tri-color: white with black and tan markings).
(English Toy Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)
