concentric

Speech parts

1. concentric - Noun

2. concentric - Adjective

Meaning

Alt. of Concentrical

That which has a common center with something else.

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The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles. John Kenneth Galbraith

Through Chance, we are each a ghost to all the others, and our only reality; through Chance, the huge hinge of the world, and a grain of dust; the stone that starts an avalanche, the pebble whose concentric circles widen across the seas. Thomas Wolfe

I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity. Geoffrey Rush

In the great philosophy of Brahma, such violent turns of the scale are quite unknown. It embraces vast stretches of time, cycles of human ages, whose successive lives gravitate in concentric circles, and travel ever slowly towards the center.... Romain Rolland

I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends. Garrison Keillor

All screws of a given pitch belonging to a system of the third order are the generators of a certain hyperboloid. There is... a different hyperboloid for each pitch. ...all these hyperboloids are concentric. Robert Stawell Ball

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