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  2. Centrism - Wikipedia

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    Centrism is the range of political ideologies that exist between left-wing politics and right-wing politics on the left–right political spectrum. It is associated with moderate politics, including people who strongly support moderate policies and people who are not strongly aligned with left-wing or right-wing policies.

  3. Centre (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    centre or origin O. In geometry, a centre ( British English) or center ( American English) (from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron) 'pointy object') of an object is a point in some sense in the middle of the object. According to the specific definition of centre taken into consideration, an object might have no centre.

  4. Centre-left politics - Wikipedia

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    Centre-left politics is the range of left-wing political ideologies that lean closer to the political centre and broadly conform with progressivism. Ideologies of the centre-left include social democracy, social liberalism, and green politics. Ideas commonly supported by the centre-left include welfare capitalism, social justice, liberal ...

  5. Left–right political spectrum - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The left–right political spectrum is a system of classifying political positions, ideologies and parties, with emphasis placed upon issues of social equality and social hierarchy. In addition to positions on the left and on the right, there are centrist and moderate positions, which are not strongly aligned with either end of the spectrum.

  6. Centroid - Wikipedia

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    Centroid. In mathematics and physics, the centroid, also known as geometric center or center of figure, of a plane figure or solid figure is the arithmetic mean position of all the points in the surface of the figure. [further explanation needed] The same definition extends to any object in - dimensional Euclidean space.

  7. Triangle center - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, a triangle center or triangle centre is a point in the triangle 's plane that is in some sense in the middle of the triangle. For example, the centroid, circumcenter, incenter and orthocenter were familiar to the ancient Greeks, and can be obtained by simple constructions. Each of these classical centers has the property that it is ...

  8. Geographical centre of Earth - Wikipedia

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    The geographical centre of Earth is the geometric centre of all land surfaces on Earth. Geometrically defined it is the centroid of all land surfaces within the two dimensions of the Geoid surface which approximates the Earth's outer shape. The term centre of minimum distance[1] specifies the concept more precisely as the domain is the sphere ...

  9. Vasomotor center - Wikipedia

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    The vasomotor center (VMC) is a portion of the medulla oblongata. Together with the cardiovascular center and respiratory center, it regulates blood pressure. [ 1 ] It also has a more minor role in other homeostatic processes. [citation needed] Upon increase in carbon dioxide level at central chemoreceptors, it stimulates the sympathetic system ...