Center

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Center or centre may refer to:

Mathematics and science

• Centre (geometry), the middle of an object
  • Centroid, geometric center
  • Triangle center
  • Center of symmetry, in geometry, a point that is well-distant from the boundary of a figure
  • Center of mass
  • Centerpoint (geometry), a generalization of the median to points of a higher dimension
• Center (algebra), several uses of "center" in abstract algebra as well as category theory
  • Center (group theory), in abstract algebra, the subgroup consisting of those elements which commute with all other elements
  • Center (ring theory)
  • Center (category theory)
• Graph center, the vertices in a graph that minimize the maximal distance from all other vertices
• Center of gravity (military)

Sports

• Center (gridiron football), a position in American and Canadian football
• Centre (Australian rules football), a position in Australian football
• Centre-back, a position in association football
• Center (basketball), a position in basketball
• Centre-forward (also known as Striker), a position in association football and Water Polo
• Centre (ice hockey), a position in ice hockey
• Centre (rugby league), a position in rugby league
• Centre (rugby union), a position in rugby union
• Center fielder, often called "center", a position in baseball

Places

• City centre
• Downtown, or center/centre (United States/Canada)
• Central business district

Buildings

• The Centre (Evansville), convention centre and auditorium in Evansville, Indiana
• The Center, New Mexico, a proposed testing facility
• The Centre (Saskatoon), shopping mall in Saskatoon, Canada
• The Centre (Livingston), shopping mall in Livingston, Scotland
• The Center, a skyscraper in Hong Kong

Arts

• Tonic (music), in tonal music, the central or most important pitch
• Center (band), a famous Russian-speaking band
• "The Centre", sixth episode of the 1965 Doctor Who serial The Web Planet
• The Center, an episode of the TV sitcom Gimme a Break!
• Lead singer and dancer in Japanese pop groups

Education

• Centre College, a liberal arts college in Danville, Kentucky, United States

In fiction

• The Centre, fictional organization in the American television series The Pretender
• The Centre or Dinosaur Island, fictional place in DC Comics
• Center, a character in the Majisuka Gakuen series
• The Center, a paranormal organization in the Martin Mystery series

Other uses

• Government of India, sometimes referred to as "the Centre"
• Government of the Soviet Union, was commonly referred to as "the Centre"
• Centre (Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg constituency)
• Area control center, an air traffic control facility covering a large region of airspace not associated with a particular airport
• Centers (Fourth Way), a human biological, psychological and spiritual nexus of energy process, equivalent to the concept of a Chakra
• Civic center
• Community centre
• Cultural center
• Lathe center, used in machining operations
• Social center
• Center (HTML element), coded with <center></center>

See also

• Center Township (disambiguation)
• Centre Township (disambiguation)
• Central (disambiguation)
• Centre Party (disambiguation)
• Centrism, the political middle ground between the left wing and the right wing
• The Centre (disambiguation)