Word Meanings - CIRCUMCENTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.

Related words: (words related to CIRCUMCENTER)

• CIRCLED
  Having the form of a circle; round. "Monthly changes in her circled orb." Shak.
• TRIANGLE
  A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles. Note: A triangle is either plane, spherical, or curvilinear, according as its sides are straight lines, or arcs of great circles of a sphere, or any curved lines whatever. A
• CENTERING
  See 6
• CIRCLE
  An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle. Note: When it is fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane
• CENTERBIT; CENTREBIT
  An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.
• CENTERBOARD; CENTREBOARD
  A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel
• CIRCLET
  1. A little circle; esp., an ornament for the person, having the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband. Her fair locks in circlet be enrolled. Spenser. 2. A round body; an orb. Pope. Fairest of stars . . .
• CENTERPIECE; CENTREPIECE
  An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.
• CIRCLER
  A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a. B. Jonson.
• CENTER; CENTRE
  1. To be placed in a center; to be central. 2. 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. Dr. H. More. Our hopes
• CENTERFIRE CARTRIDGE
  See CARTRIDGE
• TRIANGLED
  Having three angles; triangular.
• CENTER
  A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position util the work becomes self-supporting. One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
• CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
  To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
• SELF-CENTERING; SELF-CENTRING
  Centering in one's self.
• INCIRCLE
  See ENCIRCLE
• PARQUET CIRCLE
  That part of the lower floor of a theater with seats at the rear of the parquet and beneath the galleries; -- called also, esp. in U. S., orchestra circle or parterre.
• SELF-CENTERED; SELF-CENTRED
  Centered in itself, or in one's self. There hangs the ball of earth and water mixt, Self-centered and unmoved. Dryden.
• DRESS CIRCLE
  A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
• ENCIRCLE
  To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city. Her brows encircled with his serpent rod. Parnell. Syn. -- To encompass; surround; environ; inclose.
• ORTHOCENTER
  That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.
• CIRCUMCENTER
  The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.
• SEMICIRCLE
  The half of a circle; the part of a circle bounded by its diameter and half of its circumference. A semicircumference. 2. A body in the form of half of a circle, or half of a circumference. 3. An instrument for measuring angles.