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Center


A special point which usually has some symmetric placement with respect to points on a curve or in a solid. The center of a circle is equidistant from all points on the circle and is the intersection of any two distinct diameters. The same holds true for the center of a sphere.


See also

Circle, Circumcenter, Cleavance Center, Curvature Center, Ellipse, Equi-Brocard Center, Excenter, Fuhrmann Center, Group Center, Homothetic Center, Incenter, Inversion Center, Major Triangle Center, Nine-Point Center, Orthocenter, Perspective Center, Point, Radical Center, Similitude Center, Sphere, Spieker Center, Taylor Center, Triangle Center, Triangle Center Function, Yff Center of Congruence

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Center." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Center.html

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