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Center ( American English), Centre ( British English), has a number of meanings.
  1. In geometry, a point that is well-distant from the boundaries of a figure. For instance, for a circle, the center is defined as the point equidistant from all points on the circle's boundary. Similar definitions can be made for other shapes in various geometries, though for arbitrary complex shapes there may be several definitions considered appropriate in some circumstances.
  2. The standard name given to a position on the field in several sports, such as American football, basketball, netball, amongst others. See: center (basketball).
  3. The center of power in a country is the capital.
  4. Major social or political movements often have one or more centres or headquarters around which they are focussed and from where they are directed.
  5. Centre is a low-lying region of France in the centre of the country.
  6. CenterCenter is the name of two places in the U. state of Wisconsin: Center, Outagamie County, Wisconsin Center, Rock County, Wisconsin. is also the name of two towns in WisconsinOne of the periods of glaciation was also termed the Wisconsin glaciation. Wisconsin is the 23rd largest state of the United States, (54,314 square miles) and 18th greatest population (5,453,896 as of 2002). The state's name is an English version of a Fre.
  7. Cities often are said to have a center; it is also called "downtown".
  8. In abstract algebraAbstract algebra Abstract algebra is the field of mathematics concerned with the study of algebraic structures such as groups, rings and fields. The term "abstract algebra" is used to distinguish the field from " elementary algebra" or "high school algebr, the center of a groupIn abstract algebra, the center (or centre of a group G is the set Z ''G of all elements in G which commute with all the elements of G''. Specifically, Z ''G z ∈ G | gz zg for all g ∈ G Note that Z ''G is a subgroup of G — if x and y are in Z '' is the subgroup consisting of those elements which commute with all other elements. Similar definitions of center apply to other algebraic structures, for example, center (algebra)The term center is used in various contexts in abstract algebra to denote the set of all those elements that commute with all other elements. More specifically: The center of a group ''G consists of all those elements x in G such that xg gx for all g in G.
  9. In politicsPolitics is the process and method of decision-making for groups of human beings. Although it is generally applied to governments, politics is also observed in all human group interactions including corporate, academic, and religious. Political science is, the center is the middle ground between the left wing and the right wing. (See also Centre Party.)
  10. In music, in tonal music the central or most important pitch is the tonic, while in atonal music a pitch which acts referentially or the center of an interval cycle is a pitch center.
  11. Is a college in Danville,KY. Is known a the Harvard of the South
  12. There are several towns named Center.
    There are also places named Centerville and Central.




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