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dead-center en · ADJ
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(not-comparable) In the exact center
These curves represent approximate insertion conditions for lunar impact trajectories designed to intersect the center of the moon (dead-center hit).
1961, NASA Technical Report, page 7:
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dead-center en · ADV
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(not-comparable) In the exact center.
Think of it this way: There's no musical listening experience quite like sitting dead-center in an acoustically perfect concert hall.
2015, Aaron Gustafson, Adaptive Web Design:The snack bar itself had beautiful light-grained Formica counters, and there was a giant popcorn machine placed dead-center as a focal point, like a “Holy Grail” of snacks for all to see.
2016, Dennis Hinton, A Skate Odyssey: The Rise and Fall of an American Family:With a Dragunov, I can hit any target dead-center at a distanceof two hundred meters.
2014, Martin DuPont, Beyond Fear: If You Must Think It; You Will Die, page 219:
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dead-center en · NOUN
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The exact center
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of dead center.
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dead-center en · VERB
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To hit or place in the exact center.
All four of you are assuming that I've dead-centered the target . I thought probably I was right, but since I couldn't find any Eich traces, I expected a lot of argument.
1953, Edward Elmer Smith, Second Stage Lensmen, page 161:At over a hundred knots, Archie slid the Hawk forward and dead-centered the basket with the probe on his first try.
2012, M. L. Buchman, I Own the Dawn:He had looked backward longer than he realized and neatly dead-centered the lone but firm sapling.
2016, Thomas W. Kavanagh, The Life of Ten Bears: Comanche Historical Narratives:Sometimes I'd like to half-brain the old buzzard, but everything he has said so far has dead-centered the beam.
2017, E.E. 'Doc' Smith, Children of the Lens:
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