Isabella Bird

Can anything be more grotesque and barbarous than our 'florists' bouquets,' a series of concentric rings of flowers of divers colours, bordered by maidenhair and a piece of stiff lace paper, in which stems, leaves, and even petals are brutally crushed, and the grace and individuality of each flower systematically destroyed?

English Explorer

William Hague

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

British Politician

Evan Osnos

By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of concentric barriers from the Great Wall down to courtyard homes that draw sunlight only from the gardens at their core.

American Journalist

Geoffrey Rush

I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.

Australian Actor

Garrison Keillor

I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.

American Writer

Bill Bryson

Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.

Michelle Williams

I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.

American Actress

Imagine drawing circles inside each other with the same midpoint to visualize 'concentric'.

Common Center

'Concentric' patterns give a sense of balance and are pleasing to the eye.

Visual Harmony

Use 'concentric' to describe exact alignment around a shared center, not just closeness.

Precision in Description

Use 'concentric' when describing objects with layered structures sharing the same axis.

Layered Precision

'Concentric' in science often refers to Earth's layers, wave fronts, or eye structures.

Scientific Clarity

In engineering, 'concentric' can describe tubes or cylinders fitted inside each other.

Engineering Context

 in the narrow space between the outlines of two concentric ones while he could only see his paper and pencil through a mirror. Like anyone else performing such an awkward task for the first time, he did horribly. But surprisingly, he improved over repeated trials,

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 Layering multiple patterns using concentric wheels lets us create more complex rhythms. For example, we can combine a basic two beat rhythm with off beats to get a four beat system. This is the recognizable backbone of many genres popular around the world,

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 she leads Dante through "Paradiso’s" concentric spheres of Heaven until he is finally face-to-face with God. In the centuries since its publication, the "Divine Comedy’s" themes of love, sin, and redemption have been embraced by numerous artists–

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 structure i've ever seen lines of concentric veins they are made of mud and they absorb moisture from the colony above and as it evaporates it leaves this encrustation of white salts on them but more important than that as it

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 the wave fronts are now concentric spheres, with the sound traveling along rays perpendicular to these waves. Now imagine a moving sound source, such as a train whistle. As the source keeps moving in a certain direction,

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 It's a set of concentric geodesic structures with linkages between each one. In its context, it is not manufacturable by traditional manufacturing techniques. It has a symmetry such that you can't injection mold it.

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 of a tree trunk you can see there's a pattern of concentric rings and each one of those rings represents one year of growth the paler part of each ring was laid down at the beginning of the year

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 driving real goodwill. The business plan fundamentally had three concentric spirals underpinning it. So picture this. So first, we had the courage

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 If you cut a section of a tree trunk, you can see the pattern of concentric rings and each one of those rings represents one year of growth.

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 concentric circles so we're doing some concentric circles as we move away from that area

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