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▪ I. incentre, encentre, v. rare.|ɪn-, ɛnˈsɛntə(r)|
[f. in-2, en-1 + centre: cf. It. incentrare.]
trans. To centre in something; to place or fix in the centre.
1611Florio, Incentrare, to encentre, or goe to the midle or centre. 1623Williams Let. to Dk. Buckingham 15 June in Hacket Life i. (1692) 135 Nor is your Love incentred to me only in your own Breast. 1843E. Jones Sens. & Ev. 111 Encentred in this meadow, one revolved Inquiring gaze.
▪ II. incentre, in-centre, n. Geom.|ˈɪnsɛntə(r)|
Also (U.S.) -center.
[f. in-1 b + centre, center n.]
The centre of an inscribed circle.
1903E. H. Askwith Course Pure Geom. i. 12 The pedal triangle has for its incentre the orthocentre of the original triangle. 1904Hall & Stevens School Geom. iii. 204 Given the base and vertical angle of a triangle, find the locus of the in-centre. 1963R. A. Rosenbaum Introd. Projective Geom. & Mod. Algebra i. 3 Prove that the bisectors of the angles of a triangle are concurrent. (The point of concurrency is the center of the inscribed circle, abbreviated ‘incenter’.) |