| 单词 | center | 
| 释义 | center [`sen·tǝr]  INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING A manufacturing unit containing a number of interconnected cells.  MATHEMATICS 1. The point that is equidistant from all the points on a circle or sphere.  2. The point (if it exists) about which a curve (such as a circle, ellipse, or hyperbola) is symmetrical.  3. The point (if it exists) about which a surface (such as a sphere, ellipsoid, or hyperboloid) is symmetrical.  4. For a regular polygon, the center of its circumscribed circle.  5. The subgroup consisting of all elements that commute with all other elements in a given group.  6. The subring consisting of all elements a such that ax = xa for all x in a given ring.  OPTICS To adjust the components of an optical system so that their centers of curvature lie on a common optical axis. Also known as square-on.  STATISTICS For a distribution, the expected value of any random variable which has the distribution.  | 
	
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