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Center or centre (from the Greek κέντρον /kentron/) (see American and British English spelling differences) may refer to:

Science

• Center (algebra), uses of "center" in algebra
• Center of gravity (military)
• Center (group theory), in abstract algebra, the subgroup consisting of those elements which commute with all other elements
• Center of mass
• Center of symmetry, in geometry, a point that is well-distant from the boundary of a figure
• Geometric center
• Centre (geometry), the middle of an object
• Graph center, the vertices in a graph that minimize the maximal distance from all other vertices

Sports

• Center (American 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

Note that spelling differences for toponyms are not acceptable in both American and British usages, unless the place name is translated from a language not written with the Latin alphabet, or there is an unambiguous local usage pronounced very differently between American English and British English.

Place names spelled Center

• Center, Celje, Slovenia, a neighbourhood
• Center, Maribor, Slovenia, a district
• Center, Colorado, United States, a city
• Center, Indiana, United States, a town
• Center, Jay County, Indiana, United States
• Center, Kentucky, United States, a town
• Center, Missouri, United States, a city
• Center, Nebraska, United States, a city
• Center, North Dakota, United States, a city
• Center, Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States, a town
• Center, Portland, Oregon, United States, a neighborhood
• Center, Rock County, Wisconsin, United States, a town
• Center, Texas, United States, a city
• Center, Washington

Place names spelled Centre

• Centre, Alabama, United States, a city
• Centre (region), an administrative region in France
• Centre, Haiti, an administrative region
• Centre Region, Cameroon
• Centre Region, Burkina Faso

Arts

• Tonic (music), in tonal music, the central or most important pitch
• Center (music band), a famous Russian-speaking band

Education

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

Other

• Area Control Center, an Air Traffic Control facility covering a large region of airspace not associated with a particular airport
• The Center, a paranormal organization in the Martin Mystery series
• Centers (Fourth Way), a human biological, psychological and spiritual nexus of energy process, equivalent to the concept of a Chakra
• Lathe center, used in machining operations
• Centrism, the middle ground between the left wing and the right wing
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, a New York City non-profit organization commonly known as the Center

See also

• Center Township (disambiguation)
• Central (disambiguation)
• Centre Party (disambiguation)
• The Centre (disambiguation)

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From Wikitravel

There is more than one place in the world called Center, including:

• Center is the seat of Oliver County, in the center of North Dakota.
• Centre is a town in the Mountains region of Alabama.

Center may also refer to the district that is at the city or town center, such as:

• The City Center of Vancouver.
• The City Center of Munich.

Also be aware that while Center is the American spelling, other English speakers may spell the same word as Centre, which is same as French.

• Centre-Val de Loire, a region of France, formally known as Le Centre. The "Val de Loire" addition here is more from a tourist point of view.

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

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Proper noun

Centre

1. A région of France.

Anagrams

• Anagrams of ceenrt
• center
• recent
• tenrec