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/sˈɛntərɪŋ/ Listen

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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... party was in full swing when they arrived. It was an extremely hilarious party, the interest centering about a fat man in a dress-suit, with a bath towel around his waist, who was attempting to distil a forbidden elixir from an ingenious condenser of ...

— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice

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— A Fountain Sealed • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

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— The New York Subway - Its Construction and Equipment • Anonymous

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