• a building dedicated to a particular activity; "they were raising money to build a new center for research"
• a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process; "in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"
• the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
• a place where some particular activity is concentrated; "they received messages from several centers"
• a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
• an area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm"
• a low-lying region in central France
• direct one''s attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
• move into the center; "That vase in the picture is not centered"

'Centre' in other languages