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Center or Centre (see American and British English spelling differences) may refer to: Image File history File links Disambig_gray. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that French Wiktionary be merged into this article or section. ... Italic text American and British English spelling differences are one aspect of American and British English differences. ...

Mathematics

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

In geometry, the centre (or center) of an object is a point in some sense in the middle of the object. ... A fixed point of an isometry group is a point that is a fixed point for every isometry in the group. ... In abstract algebra, the centre of a group G is the set Z(G) of all elements in G which commute with all the elements of G. Specifically, Z(G) = {z ∈ G | gz = zg for all g ∈ G} Note that Z(G) is a subgroup of G — if x and... The term center is used in various contexts in abstract algebra to denote the set of all those elements that commute with all other elements. ...

Sports

• Center (American football), a position in American and Canadian football
• Center (basketball), a position in basketball
• Centre (ice hockey), a position in ice hockey
• Centre (rugby union), a position in rugby union
• Centre (rugby league), a position in rugby league

Center (C) is a position in American football. ... The center is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. ... Centre or Center in ice hockey is a forward position of a player whose primary zone of play is the middle of the ice, away from the side boards. ... A rugby union team is made up of 15 players: eight forwards, numbered from 1 to 8; and seven backs, numbered from 9 to 15[1]. Depending upon the competition, there may be up to seven replacements. ... A typical rugby league team consists of thirteen players on the field plus four substitutes on the bench. ...

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 a unambiguous local usage pronounced very differently between American and British English.

Place names that must be spelled only as Center: To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

• Center, Colorado, United States, a city
• Center, Indiana, 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 city
• Center, Rock County, Wisconsin, United States, a city
• Center, Texas, United States, a city

Place names that must be spelled only as Centre: Center is a town located in Rio Grande County, Colorado. ... Center is a town in southeastern Howard County, Indiana. ... Center is a city located in Ralls County, Missouri. ... Center is a village located in Knox County, Nebraska, USA. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 90. ... Center is a city located in Oliver County, North Dakota. ... Center is a town located in Outagamie County, Wisconsin. ... Center is a town located in Rock County, Wisconsin. ... Center is a city located in Shelby County, Texas. ...

• Centre (France), an administrative region
• Centre, Alabama, United States, a city
• Centre Province, Cameroon

Buildings that must be spelled only as Centre: (Region flag) (Region logo) Location Administration Capital Orléans Regional President Michel Sapin (PS) (1998 to 2000, and since 2004) Departments Cher Eure-et-Loir Indre Indre-et-Loire Loir-et-Cher Loiret Arrondissements 20 Cantons 198 Communes 1,842 Statistics Land area1 39,151 km² Population (Ranked 9th)  - January... Centre is a city located in Cherokee County, Alabama. ... Geography View of Yaoundé Land The Centres soil is primarily composed of Precambrian deposits of metamorphic rocks, such as gneiss, mica, migmatites, and schists. ...

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

Centre College is an accredited, private, four-year liberal arts college located in Danville, Kentucky, USA, a community of about 15,000 located in Boyle County, approximately 35 miles (56. ...

Arts

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

The tonic is the first note of a musical scale, and in the tonal method of music composition it is extremely important. ... Center (or Tsentr, Russian: Центр) is a Russian-speaking band, which can be described as eclectic and experimental. ...

Other usages

• Centrism, in politics, the middle ground between the left wing and the right wing
• Lathe center, used in machining operations
• Centers (Fourth Way), a human biological, psychological and spiritual nexus of energy process, equivalent to the concept of a Chakra
• Center (direction), a concept in Chinese philosophy.
• The Center (organization), a paranormal organization in the Martin Mystery series.

In politics, centrism usually refers to the political ideal of promoting moderate policies which land in the middle ground between different political extremes. ... A lathe center (or center) is a tool that has been ground to an included angle of 60 ° and is used to accurately position a workpiece about its axis. ... In Gurdjieffs Fourth Way tradition, the Centers refer to separate apparatuses within a being that dictate specific functions within that being. ... Martin Mystery (2003) is an animated television series. ...

See also

• Center of mass
• Center of gravity (military)
• Central
• Centre Party
• Geometric center