{
  "id": "centre.location",
  "term": "centre",
  "sense": "location",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "centre",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the part of a space that is just between the boundaries",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "boundary.limit",
      "just.exact",
      "part.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "When space.extent and boundary.limit are together, augmented by just.exact and part.relation, they produce a region that is strictly within the bounds and equal to none but the middle.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "central position",
      "interior equality",
      "bounded balance"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Vatican Obelisk stands exactly where it was placed in 1586 at the centre of St. Peter's Square, equidistant from the enclosing colonnades.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 1971, Apollo 15 landed within 1 km of Hadley Rille's midpoint, the planned centre of the exploration zone.",
      "domain": "spaceflight"
    },
    {
      "text": "The zero mark on a meter stick defines the centre between its 0 cm and 100 cm ends, used to balance the ruler on a fingertip.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "center.location",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "comfortable.central",
    "homeostasis.regulation",
    "moderation.central",
    "stable.condition"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "center",
    "centered",
    "centering",
    "centers",
    "centre",
    "centred",
    "centres",
    "centring"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "added missing constitutive concepts to align record with definition"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-centre.location"
}