dead centre
Britishnoun
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the exact top ( top dead centre ) or bottom ( bottom dead centre ) of the piston stroke in a reciprocating engine or pump
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a pointed rod mounted in the tailstock of a lathe to support a workpiece
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The specialist bomb-aiming equipment developed for the raid was now useless, and Johnson was going to have to rely on instinct to drop the bomb dead centre.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022
This teen romance, with live music, is even better than I remembered and this time I get a better view as I’m up close and dead centre in the first row.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2020
This is the dead centre of troll territory; what they're looking for is that sharp intake of breath; the collective, "How can you say that?" outrage.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2012
From the vantage of such self-candor Yeats could see at first hand that a world in which mind and body are divorced reaches its dead centre in a loveless heart.
From Time Magazine Archive
Imagine you are standing at the dead centre of a merry-go-round on which the horses are arranged in three concentric circles.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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