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How to use concentric in a sentence

20 example sentences · adjective

Concentric means having a common center. Example: “Seven huge concentric semi-circular rings of stone surround the northern end, and quite rightly are Grade 2-listed by conservation body Historic England.”

Examples of concentric by meaning

adjectiveHaving 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

More sentences with concentric

  • Then, BRB brace is submitted into a concentric braced frame, producing a BRBF system.2018, Farzad Hejazi, Keyhan Karimzadeh, Analysis Procedure for Earthquake Resistant Structures, page 234. From the entry brb
  • Such a problem is generalized to an estimation of concentric, co-dimension 1, subspheres of a polysphere.2016, Sungkyu Jung, “Inference on subspheres model for directional data”, in arXiv. From the entry polysphere
  • Typical focal lesion of primary sclerosing cholangitis demonstrating “onion skin” concentric fibrosis and chronic periductular inflammation.2014 December 15, Renée M. Marchioni Beery, Haleh Vaziri, Faripour Forouhar, “Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and Primary Sclerosing…. From the entry periductular
  • Let us suppose the existence of three concentric circles. . . .2003, Allardyce Nicoll, Shakespeare Survey, Cambridge Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 108. From the entry investigability
  • The three of us were referred to in security documents by a coded sign, three concentric circles.1972, Peng Ming-min, A Taste of Freedom, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 206. From the entry I-lan
  • Brachial-valve ornament similar but no spines; concentric ornament more prominent; traces of fine capillation.1960, Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood, Gustav Arthur Cooper, Morphology, Classification and Life Habits of the Productoidea (Brachiopoda), page…. From the entry capillation
  • Concentric crusted structure may be formed in very different ways .1914, Franz Beyschlag, Johan Herman Lie Vogt, Paul Krusch, The deposits of the useful minerals & rocks, page 114. From the entry crusted
  • There’s a little guy sitting padmasana on the hood, there in the middle of the concentric rings of cramped white letters.2011, Kip Manley, “Freeway”, in City of Roses, volume 1 (“Wake up…”), Supersticery Press, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry padmasana
  • It was a hierarchical group which consisted of concentric 'circles which formed patronymies of the first, second and tertiary order.1986, James George Frazer, Marriage and Worship in Early Societies - Volume 2, page xx. From the entry patronymy
  • In central hilum starch grains the grain is laid down around the hilum in the form of concentric layers.1916, William Mansfield, Histology of Medicinal Plants, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, →OCLC, page 188. From the entry hilum
  • The counter consists of a thin central wire, carrying a positive charge, surrounded by a concentric circular conducting cylinder, carrying an equal negative charge.1988, David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Fundamentals of Physics, 3rd edition, page 387. From the entry Geiger counter
  • The orchestra has struck up a "Paul Jones," where two concentric circles of young people march in opposite directions, until the music stops.1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft). From the entry Paul Jones
  • The metropolis grows like a tree in concentric circles, rim upon rim, the inner rings hardening or "citifying" and the outer bark expanding or "urbanizing."1946, Harper's Magazine, volume 192. From the entry citify
  • Once, Cinrak watched fascinated and horrified as Agnes casually cronched a shark, tearing them apart with terrifying efficiency and feeding the struggling beast into the concentric carnassial circles.2018 December 1, Catherine Lundoff, editor, Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space), Queen of Swords Press, →ISBN. From the entry cronch
  • Their motifs build up from concentric bands of color (more pencil) that form a diamond, pairs of kissing U shapes or a tiled floorlike plane that refuses to recede.2015 October 1, Roberta Smith, “Alicia McCarthy Expands Her Illusions in New Work”, in New York Times. From the entry floorlike
  • The concentric features outside the chasma are attributed to normal faulting associated with lithospheric flexure similar to that occurring seaward of subduction zones on the Earth.2014, Donald L[awson] Turcotte, Gerald Schubert, Geodynamics, 3rd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry chasma
  • A space curve contained between two concentric spheres and with its concave side facing always toward the common center of the two spheres is said to be periplegmatic.1972, Yusuke Hagihara, Celestial Mechanics: Perturbation Theory, MIT Press. From the entry diastem
  • After projection onto the (x₁, x₂) plane, the A’s, B’s, C’s, and D’s form four concentric triacontagons, inscribed in circles of radii a, b, c, and d.1947, H. S. M. Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, published 2012, unnumbered page. From the entry triacontagon
  • An amplitude spatial frequency filter consisting of several transparent and opaque concentric rings and having a microdiaphragm in the center is placed in the frequency plane of the objective lens.1999, Oleg V. Angelsky, Steen G. Hanson, Peter P. Maksimyak, Use of Optical Correlation Techniques for Characterizing Scattering Objects…. From the entry microdiaphragm

Meaning of concentric

  1. adjective Having a common center.
  2. adjective 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).

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Questions about concentric in a sentence

How do you use concentric in a sentence?
Concentric is used as an adjective. For example: “Seven huge concentric semi-circular rings of stone surround the northern end, and quite rightly are Grade 2-listed by conservation body Historic England.”
What is a short sentence with concentric?
“Concentric crusted structure may be formed in very different ways .”
What does concentric mean?
Concentric means having a common center.

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