Concentric
[kən'sentrɪk] or [kən'sɛntrɪk]
Definition
(a.) Alt. of Concentrical
(n.) That which has a common center with something else.
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Examples
- He turned upon them his painfully circular eyes, surrounded by concentric lines like targets. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She had two propellers on the same axis, but revolving in opposite directions, one being on the central shaft and the other on a concentric tube. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Each lens consists of concentric segments, see Fig. 46, 190 in number, surrounding a central disk, which together cause the rays to issue in parallel lines. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Across their foreheads were tattooed three parallel lines of color, and on each breast three concentric circles. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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