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noun Machinery.

Also called dead point. (in a reciprocating engine) either of two positions at which the crank cannot be turned by the connecting rod, occurring at each end of a stroke when the crank and connecting rod are in the same line.

See under center (def. 19a).

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Origin of dead center

First recorded in 1870–75

OTHER WORDS FROM dead center

dead-center, adjective

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How to use dead center in a sentence

In between, Mountcastle launched a game-tying home run to dead center field on a curveball that caught too much plate.
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These two lines were visible in the puzzle as the circled coordinates, assuming the dead center of the grid was the origin of the coordinate plane.
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The cartoonist, better known as Charb, was shot dead Wednesday.
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A policewoman was shot dead this morning while law enforcement searched for the Charlie Lebdo killers.
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Note: UNICOR uses its inmates for everything from call center operators to human demolishers of old computers.
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It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.
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Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction.
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The controlling center of consciousness is the extreme limit of the nares anteri.
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A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
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When he plays a sonata it is as if the composition rose from the dead and stood transfigured before you.
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To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.
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It is a fearsome thing for a man to be left alone in the dead of night with a young baby.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke