centrum

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We want a waiting area called a “centrum,” which is a place “where comfort and convenience meet,” and we want an eatery by Wolfgang Puck in the center of the centrum.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2021

Hence the chief point of contrast noted on examining a transverse frontal section through the cerebral hemisphere of a man and an ape consists in the mass of the centrum ovale of Vieussens.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.

So that it would seem that the atlas is a vertebra minus a centrum, and the axis is a vertebra plus a centrum, added at the expense of the atlas.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

As he put it in Latin: terra igitur, quae centrum esse nequit, motu omni carere non potest.

From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.

"Vocatur etiam cyfra, quasi circumfacta vel circumferenda, quod idem est, quod circulus non habito respectu ad centrum."

From The Hindu-Arabic Numerals by Karpinski, Louis Charles