concentric
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- adjective
- /kənˈsɛntrɪk/
- Facing each other, the two groups of students then form two concentric circles around the classroom.
- concentric circles
- concentric rings
- concentric spheres
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Watch on YouTubeIt was in fact, a series of concentric shells.
- It was in fact, a series of concentric shells.
- And then there are these concentric circles around us.
- The outermost concentric circle is all the people you don't know.
- You've got to measure out your your whip laces in concentric circles and also the laces taper.
- But it was, it was North America with Cuba and then concentric circles showing the range of known missiles.
- What you don't realize is that you're, it's like throwing a stone into a Stillwater and you have a series of concentric circles.
- So he'll discuss this in terms of four circles, and you could think of these as wider and wider and wider concentric circles.
- He's been moving in the concentric circles toward Donald Trump over the past several weeks, going after his top advisors, subpoenaing them.
- So if you imagine to yourself a set of concentric circles, I mean, you could put whatever you want, could be like the skee ball at the Chuck E Cheese.
- If we're clear there, now we can add the concentric portion, right?
Examples
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Imagine the spheres of the universe... as a series of concentric circles moving within one another.
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Totoro's structure inside will be created using a series of concentric rings.
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And so you have a ring, concentric rings and hot and cold.
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What you see there, first look at the concentric circles.
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And then there are these concentric circles around us.
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Do you see the concentric circles around the mountain?
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Rather, one can observe the development of concentric circles around a hard core.
Academic text (1995) -
When they are stored together, one inside the other, they form concentric circles.
Fiction book (1999) -
The key insight is to look at a grid as a series of concentric squares.
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The artist painted the sky with concentric circles representing the sun's rays.
Synonyms
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Having the same center point, like circles that share one point
A shape that has the same center as another shape, especially circles
Antonyms
How Concentric
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Etymology
Concentric comes from con- meaning 'together' and center meaning 'middle'. So, concentric describes shapes like circles or rings that share the same middle point.