ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Dead-center

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Dead-center is an adjective meaning In the exact center.

Meaning

In the exact center.

More Meanings

  1. The exact center
  2. (engineering) Alternative form of dead center.
  3. To hit or place in the exact center.

Example Sentences

With a Dragunov, I can hit any target dead-center at a distanceof two hundred meters.
He had looked backward longer than he realized and neatly dead-centered the lone but firm sapling.
Sometimes I'd like to half-brain the old buzzard, but everything he has said so far has dead-centered the beam.
At over a hundred knots, Archie slid the Hawk forward and dead-centered the basket with the probe on his first try.

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Related dictionary entries include deadcenter, geocentric, centrolineal, perpendicular, centrolinear, stellarcentric.

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