Usually means: Origin point of an earthquake.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. hypocenter: Merriam-Webster
  2. hypocenter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hypocenter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hypocenter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hypocenter: Wiktionary
  6. hypocenter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. hypocenter: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. hypocenter: Dictionary.com
  9. Hypocenter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. hypocenter: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hypocenter: Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hypocenter: Glossary of Earthquake and Related Terminology
  2. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Field Trip to Mars (No longer online)

(Note: See hypocentral as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Hypocenter)

noun:  (US) Alternative spelling of hypocentre [(geology) The focus of an earthquake, directly under the epicentre.]

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