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concentric

[kuhn-sen-trik] / kənˈsɛn trɪk /
ADJECTIVE
having a common center
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The monitor had been designed with screws in the back that had 25 concentric circles machined into their flat heads to make them sparkle as light passed over them.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

After doffing their shoes, presumably to protect the plush, vibrantly red carpet that covers the theater’s floor, audience members take seats arranged in concentric circles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

The frolicking angels populate concentric bands of other clouds that extend upward.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Lineated valley fill and concentric crater fill appear throughout this entire latitude zone, suggesting that Mars once experienced a global climate shift.

From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2025

This account presented Muslim and Christian philosophers with a problem which had not worried their pagan predecessors: how did it come about that the four elements did not form perfect concentric circles?

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton



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