Center
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Etymology
The Latin word centrum was the center, or the stationary point of a compass evolved from Greek kentron, a sharp point including the sharp fixed point of a compass, deriving from the Indo-European root kent- meaning 'to prick with a point.'
Related mathematical terms
Other related words
Eccentric (out of the center), concentrate, central, centrifuge ('running away', cf, 'fugitive', from the center).
