Center

Center

Center or centre (see American and British English spelling differences) may refer to:

cience

*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

ports

*Center (American football), a position in American and Canadian 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 that must be spelled only as "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 city
*Center, Portland, Oregon, United States, a neighborhood
*Center, Rock County, Wisconsin, United States, a city
*Center, Texas, United States, a city
*Center Township (disambiguation)
*Center, Washington

;Place names that must be spelled only as "Centre":
*Centre, Alabama, United States, a city
*Centre (region), an administrative region in France
*Centre, Haiti, an administrative region
*Centre Province, 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
*Central
*Centre Party
*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
*Political center, the middle ground between the left wing and the right wing


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