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centerpoint

noun

Etymology

From center + point.

  1. derived from *pungō✻ — “to sting, prick”
  2. derived from pūnctus
  3. derived from pointe
  4. derived from pūnctum — “a hole punched in; a point, puncture”
  5. derived from point
  6. inherited from poynt
  7. compounded as centerpoint — “center + point”

Definitions

  1. point at the center of something, midpoint

  2. A generalization of the median to data in higher-dimensional Euclidean space.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for centerpoint. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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