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The centre of a parabola is the contact point of the figurative straight. The centre of a hyperbola lies without the curve, since the figurative straight crosses the curve. The tangents from the centre to the hyperbola are called 'asymptotes'. Their contact points are the two points at infinity on the curve.
The Centre, a shorthand term for the central Government of India Centrism , the political middle ground between the left wing and the right wing The Center (political party) , a political party in Switzerland
better off than 'working class', but not rich, i.e., a narrower term than in the U.S. and often negative ordinary; not rich although not destitute, generally a positive term midway (adv.) in the centre of a line or period (n.) part of a fair in which there are games, rides, etc. [5] military: relating specifically to the British Army (dated)
The length of the chord imposes a lower boundary on the diameter of possible arcs. Sometimes the term segment is used only for regions not containing the centre of the circle to which their arc belongs. Secant: an extended chord, a coplanar straight line, intersecting a circle in two points.
The term is peculiar to the English language; French, for instance, uses "centre de gravité" on most occasions, and other languages use terms of similar meaning. [ citation needed ] The center of gravity, as the name indicates, is a notion that arose in mechanics, most likely in connection with building activities.
The term centre of minimum distance [1] specifies the concept more precisely as the domain is the sphere surface without boundary and not the three-dimensional body. Explained in a different way, it is the location on the surface of Earth where the sum of distances to all locations on land is the smallest.
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centre point of a bounding box completely enclosing the area. While relatively easy to determine, a centre point calculated using this method will generally also vary (relative to the shape of the landmass or region) depending on the orientation of the bounding box to the area under consideration.