concentric

About 2.37 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Having a common center.
2. adjective Of a motion, in the direction of contraction of a muscle. (e.g. the extension of the lower arm by means of the elbow joint while contracting the triceps and other elbow extensor muscles; closing of the jaw while flexing the masseter).

Similar words

homocentric coaxial concentrical coaxal co-axial confocal semiconcentric homocentrical centrosymmetric eccentric

Often followed by

circles rings with layers spheres and lines circle zones cylinders

Word family

concentrically concentricities concentricity