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

The centrum is elongate and triangular from below; it is widest at the paradiapophyses and narrowest at the short condylar neck.

From A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family Colubridae, from Middle America) by Wellman, John

In development the centrum of the axis ossifies from one centre, and the odontoid, peg from another, which at that time occupies the position of centrum of the atlas.

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

It was conceived in the following terms:      In Sneffels Joculis craterem quem delibat      Umbra Scartaris Julii intra calendas descende,      Audax viator, et terrestre centrum attinges.

From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules

Terra igitur, qu� centrum esse nequit, motu omni carere non potest, nam eam moveri taliter etiam necesse est, quod per infinitum minus moveri posset.

From The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe by Stimson, Dorothy