Usually means: Center point directly above earthquake.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. epicenter: Merriam-Webster
  2. epicenter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. epicenter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. epicenter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. epicenter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Epicenter, epicenter: Wordnik
  7. epicenter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. epicenter: Wiktionary
  9. epicenter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. epicenter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. epicenter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. epicenter: Dictionary.com
  13. Epicenter (book), Epicenter (disambiguation), Epicenter (music festival), Epicenter (sculpture), Epicenter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. epicenter: Rhymezone
  15. epicenter: FreeDictionary.org
  16. epicenter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. epicenter: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. epicenter: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epicenter: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. EPICENTER: Acronym Finder
  2. epicenter: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicenter: Glossary of Earthquake and Related Terminology
  2. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Field Trip to Mars (No longer online)
  4. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  5. epicenter: Dictionary of Geology
  6. epicenter: Natural History Terms

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▸ noun:  (American spelling) Alternative form of epicentre [(seismology) The point on the land or water surface directly above the focus, or hypocentre, of an earthquake.]
▸ verb:  (American spelling) Alternative form of epicentre [Of an earthquake: to have its epicentre (at a specified location).]

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epicentre, Mecca, hotbed, center, bustling, birthplace, hypocentre, devastation, hotspot, earthquake, more...

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Similar:
epicentre, Mecca, hotbed, center, bustling, birthplace, hypocentre, devastation, hotspot, earthquake, more...

Opposite:
periphery, outskirts, fringe

Adjectives:
very, new, political, cultural, instrumental, same, whole, maximum, true, exact, social

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     ruby,     garnet,     burgundy, more...



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