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centrs

“centrs” is a Latvian word. Its 9 meanings in English:

noun

  1. center (a notable or important point in a mathematical or physical body)
  2. center, mid, middle, middle point
  3. center (administratively or economically important part of a certain territory)
  4. center (an important urban area)
  5. center (the main or leading part of a system)
  6. center (place, institution, organization in which a certain field of activity or its administration is concentrated)
  7. center (the main focus or object)
  8. center (part of the central nervous system that leads and regulates a certain organ or group of organs in the body)
  9. center (party, group of parties or political movement that, by their ideas and program, is seen as between the left- and right-wing parties)

Etymology

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin centrum (“central”) (itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron, “sharp point”)).

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