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  • English Word Centennial Definition Happening once in a hundred years; as, centennial jubilee; a centennial celebration.
  • English Word Centennial Definition Lasting or aged a hundred years.
  • English Word Centennial Definition The celebration of the hundredth anniversary of any event; a centenary.
  • English Word Centennially Definition Once in a hundred years.
  • English Word Center Definition A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.
  • English Word Center Definition The middle or central portion of anything.
  • English Word Center Definition A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction.
  • English Word Center Definition The earth.
  • English Word Center Definition Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left.
  • English Word Center Definition A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
  • English Word Center Definition One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
  • English Word Center Definition A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
  • English Word Center Definition Alt. of Centre
  • English Word Center Definition Alt. of Centre
  • English Word Centerbit Definition Alt. of Centrebit
  • English Word Centerboard Definition Alt. of Centreboard
  • English Word Centered Definition of Centre
  • English Word Centerfire cartridge Definition See under Cartridge.
  • English Word Centering Definition of Centre
  • English Word Centering Definition Same as Center, n., 6.
  • English Word Centerpiece Definition Alt. of Centrepiece
  • English Word Centesimal Definition Hundredth.
  • English Word Centesimal Definition A hundredth part.
  • English Word Centesimation Definition The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny.
  • English Word Centesimo Definition A copper coin of Italy and Spain equivalent to a centime.
  • English Word Centesm Definition Hundredth.
  • English Word Centiare Definition See centare.
  • English Word Centicipitous Definition Hundred-headed.
  • English Word Centifidous Definition Divided into a hundred parts.
  • English Word Centifolious Definition Having a hundred leaves.