{
  "id": "center.location",
  "term": "center",
  "sense": "location",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "center",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the part of a space that is just between the boundaries",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "part.relation",
      "space.extent",
      "boundary.limit",
      "just.exact"
    ],
    "interaction": "a part of a space is just between the boundaries",
    "novel_properties": [
      "equidistance",
      "symmetry point"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The calm eye of Hurricane Katrina, observed at 30.2°N, 89.1°W, remained centered over the Gulf for 12 hours before landfall.",
      "domain": "meteorology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider's beam pipe maintains proton streams centered within 0.02 millimeters across 27 kilometers.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Kyoto's historic Nijō Castle garden places the central pond exactly midway between its northern and southern walls.",
      "domain": "architecture"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "central.location",
    "focus.attention",
    "main.primary",
    "mid.spatial",
    "round.shape",
    "self.personal",
    "viable.functional",
    "washington.city",
    "wheel.tool"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "center",
    "centered",
    "centering",
    "centers"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-center.location"
}