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concentrically 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. (concentrical) concentric: having a common center; "concentric rings"
  2. Concentric objects share the same center, axis or origin with one inside the other. Circles, tubes, cylindrical shafts, disks, and spheres may be concentric to one another. Concentric objects generally have different radii, as concentric objects with the same radius are equal.
  3. In a concentric manner
  4. (concentric) Having a common center; (of a motion) in the direction of contraction of a muscle. (E.g. extension of the lower arm via the elbow joint while contracting the triceps and other elbow extensor muscles; closing of the jaw while flexing the masseter)
  5. (Concentric) A searchcoil configuration using one or more transmit and one receive windings having unequal diameters aligned on a common center; most recently arranged on the same plane and called coplanar concentric.
  6. (Concentric) lay Conductor ** Conductor constructed with a central core surrounded by one or more layers of helically laid wires. Several types are as follows:
  7. (concentric) The relative position of any number of arcs or circles that shares the same center point or projected center point.
  8. (Concentric) A muscle exerting force when shortening
  9. (CONCENTRIC) Running true or having the same center. In camshaft terminology, the cam bearings and lobes are concentric to each other when the cam is straight and there is .001" or less runout between all the cam lobes and bearings.
  10. (CONCENTRIC) This system comprises of two pipes one inside the other, the internal pipe takes the exhaust gases from the boiler to the atmosphere and the outer pipe supplies air to the boiler. ...
  11. (CONCENTRIC) general name for any spacing scheme in millefiori weights which features concentric circles of canes placed around a central cane or cluster of canes. ...
  12. (Concentric) An aggregate described as having foliated masses that are somewhat spherical and rotate about a center; appearing like a rose (rosette). It is also used to describe a form of banding where the bands are circular, forming rings about a central point.
  13. (Concentric) The lifting phase of an exercise, when the muscle shortens or contracts. For example, When you lift the weight in a bench press, press-ing it from your chest to the lock-out position, that's the concentric, or "positive," phase of the exercise.
  14. (Concentric) following the direction of growth lines, mostly in bivalves.