ETYM French centre, from Latin centrum, from round which a circle is described, Greek kentron center.
(Alternate spelling: centre).
1. A point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure; SYN. centre, midpoint.
2. An area that is approximately central within some larger region; SYN. centre, middle, heart, eye.
3. The object upon which interest and attention focuses; SYN. center of attention.
4. A building dedicated to a particular activity; SYN. centre.
5. A place where some particular activity is concentrated; SYN. centre.
6. A position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the center jump to start the game.
7. (Basketball) The person who plays center.
8. The middle of a military or naval formation.
9. (Football) The position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play.
10. (Ice hockey) The position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game.
11. A cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process; SYN. centre, nerve center, nerve centre.
12. Politically moderate persons; centrists. + prikaži više

Alternate (chiefly British) spelling for center.

ETYM French élément, Latin elementum.
1. A component or part.
2. A fundamental or basic unit.
3. One of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe.
4. The most favorable environment for a plant or animal.
5. The situation in which one is happiest and most effective.
6. A straight line that generates a cylinder or cone. + prikaži više

ETYM Cf. French environnement.
In ecology, the sum of conditions affecting a particular organism, including physical surroundings, climate, and influences of other living organisms. See also biosphere and habitat.
In common usage, “the environment” often means the total global environment, without reference to any particular organism. In genetics, it is the external influences that affect an organism’s development, and thus its phenotype.
1. The area in which something exists or lives; SYN. environs, surroundings, surround.
2. The totality of surrounding conditions. + prikaži više

ETYM Latin, it dwells, from habitare. Related to Habit.
In ecology, the localized environment in which an organism lives. Habitats are often described by the dominant plant type or physical feature, such as a grassland habitat or rocky seashore habitat.
The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs.

A substance in which signals can be transmitted, such as a wire or fiber-optic cable. See media. In the arts, the physical means used to convey information or create a work of art, or the category of work resulting from these means—for instance, oil on canvas, the written word, television, and computer graphics. In painting, a medium is the liquid forming a suspension of the pigment. + prikaži više

ETYM as. middel. Related to Middle.
1. An intermediate part or section.
2. The middle area of the human torso (usually in front); SYN. midriff, midsection.
3. Time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period.

A section midway between the extremes; especially; midriff

ETYM From middest, in the middest, for older in middes, where -s is adverbial (orig. forming a genitive), or still older a midde, a midden, on midden. Related to Mid, Amidst.
The location of something surrounded by other things; SYN. thick.

ETYM French, from mi middle (Latin medius) + lieu place. Related to Demi-, Lieu.
(French) surroundings; environment.
The environmental condition; SYN. surroundings.