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concentric

[kən′sen·trik]
(science and technology)
Pertaining to the relationship between two different-sized circular, cylindrical, or spherical shapes when the smaller one is exactly centered within the larger one.
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Concentric

Having a common center.
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concentric

Having a common center.
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He thinks The Epistle to the Hebrews is a product of preaching that conforms to the rules of Semitic rhetoric, including various genres of parallelism, synonymism, and antithesis and complementarity, all case in a concentrically symmetrical schema.
This work is an exegetical analysis of the text of the epistle itself He thinks The Epistle to the Hebrews is a product of preaching that conforms to the rules of Semitic rhetoric, including various genres of parallelism, synonymism, and antithesis and complementarily, all cast in a concentrically symmetrical schema.
Hardy (2006:26) defines it "basically as a method of building up the wall of a pottery form by adding concentrically joined ropes or coils of clay".
In dance, given the primary importance of the quadriceps acting both concentrically and eccentrically to stabilize the leg, femoral neuropathy can be a disabling condition.
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According to Fritz5 trigger points tend to be found near origins and insertions in long eccentrically contracted muscles, and in muscle bellies in short concentrically contracted muscles.