concentric
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- adjective
- /kənˈsɛntrɪk/
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concéntrico
- Facing each other, the two groups of students then form two concentric circles around the classroom.
- concentric circles
- concentric rings
- concentric spheres
It 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
A shape that has the same center as another shape, especially circles
Having the same center point, like circles that share one point
Antonyms
How Concentric
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.