concentric

IPA: kʌnsˈɛntrɪk

adjective

  • (geometry) Having a common center.
  • (physiology) (of a motion) in the direction of contraction of a muscle. (E.g. extension of the lower arm via the elbow joint while contracting the triceps and other elbow extensor muscles; closing of the jaw while flexing the masseter).
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Examples of "concentric" in Sentences

  • When it comes to location, the value of properties generally conforms to what I call the concentric circle theory.
  • Arrange the fruit slices in concentric circles over the crumbs, overlapping slightly, still leaving the 2 inch border.
  • SHEPHERD: We often see an intensification phase when we see these regenerating eye walls, what we call concentric eye walls.
  • As Asian immigration radiated outward in concentric circles from Monterey Park, the culture wars moved to new staging grounds.
  • Then, using a very sharp paring knife, cut off the top and bottom, where the shoots and root ends are, and then carefully remove the peel in concentric circles.
  • Either way, the site does not show a pattern suggesting that it spread gradually outwards in concentric circles from a central point, as one might expect, he notes.
  • Since the Soviet Union was itself largely closed and compartmentalized, the nuclear cities stood within concentric layers of defenses like fortresses within fortresses, like nested Russian dolls.
  • The portrayal of Bob and his boat could perhaps be said to reach inward -- although this is done through concentration and indirection, not through the tedium of the "free indirect" method -- as well as to expand outward and around Bob in concentric circles of thinly-layered exposition, but it could hardly be said to ever really push forward into a plotted narrative.
  • Nearby, a large group of Asians, whites and Hispanics danced and sang in concentric circles around guitarists and drummers, chanting, "Hallelujah" under a banner for the Iglesia Inmaculado Corazon de Maria from Newark, N.J. Terry Perez of Annandale, Va., a naturalized U.S. citizen from the Philippines, called the multiethnic crowd "a little bit of the United Nations."

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