concentric
/kənˈsɛn.tɹɪk/
concentric adjective: having a common center.
Adjective
concentric (comparative more concentric, superlative most concentric)
- Having a common center.
- Seven huge concentric semi-circular rings of stone surround the northern end, and quite rightly are Grade 2-listed by conservation body Historic England.2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 45
- The ordo amoris can be conceptualized as a series of concentric circles radiating outward from ourselves, beginning with loving God, who is, as Augustine put it, “closer to us than we are to ourselves,” and ending with loving the rest of the world outside our own country.2025 February 11, Richard Clements, “First, Love Locally: JD Vance and ‘Ordo Amoris’”, in Word on Fire, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2025
- Of a motion, in the direction of contraction of a muscle. (e.g. the extension of the lower arm by means of the elbow joint while contracting the triceps and other elbow extensor muscles; closing of the jaw while flexing the masseter).
- Antonyms:
- eccentric
concentric meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
concentric in Tamil
- ஒருமைய, ஒருமையமுள்ள, பொதுமைய, ஒருமைய வட்டம், பொது மைய, ஒருமையமான
concentric in Bengali
- সমকেন্দ্রিক, একই কেন্দ্রবিশিষ্ট বিভিন্ন বৃত্ত, আকৃতি
concentric in Malayalam
- ഒരേ മധ്യമായ, ഒരേ കേന്ദ്രമുള്ള, ഏകകേന്ദ്രമായ
concentric in Kannada
- ಒನ್ನಡುವಿನ, ಏಕಕೇಂದ್ರದ, ಸಮಾನಕೇಂದ್ರದ
More languagesFewer languages
- concentric in Indonesian
- konsentris
- concentric in Persian
- هممرکزی hammarkazi
- concentric in Vietnamese
- đồng tâm
Examples of concentric in a sentence
- Then, BRB brace is submitted into a concentric braced frame, producing a BRBF system.
- Such a problem is generalized to an estimation of concentric, co-dimension 1, subspheres of a polysphere.
- Typical focal lesion of primary sclerosing cholangitis demonstrating “onion skin” concentric fibrosis and chronic periductular inflammation.
Antonyms of concentric
Forms of concentric
| comparative | more concentric |
|---|---|
| superlative | most concentric |
Origin of concentric
From Middle English concentrik, from Middle French concentrique, from Medieval Latin concentricus, from Latin con- (“with, together”) + centrum (“circle, center”). Equivalent to con- + -centric. By surface analysis, con- + centre + -ic.
Words formed from concentric
Words that rhyme with concentric
- eccentric
- allocentric
- centric
- egocentric
- bicentric
- excentric
- geocentric
- heliocentric
- psychocentric
- acentric
- Americocentric
- Croatocentric
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Questions about concentric
- What does concentric mean?
- Concentric means having a common center.
- What is concentric in Tamil?
- Concentric in Tamil is ஒருமைய, ஒருமையமுள்ள, பொதுமைய. See Concentric meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is concentric?
- Concentric is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce concentric?
- Concentric is pronounced /kənˈsɛn.tɹɪk/.
Words near concentric in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: concentric (page history and authors); concentric (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Concentric (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); concentric (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); concentric (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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