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concentric
Coming from the center, or circles within circles. For example, tracks on a hard disk are concentric. Tracks on optical media are concentric or spiral shaped (in a coil) depending on the type.
concentric [kən′sen·trik]
(science and technology)
Pertaining to the relationship between two different-sized circular, cylindrical, or spherical shapes when the smaller one is exactly centered within the larger one.
concentric
Having a common center.
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A cultured pearl will not show the concentric spheres of a naturally occurring pearl and is usually also not completely solid to the core.
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With three attributes, radii of concentric spheres with the reference point as center represent the Euclidean Distance Metric.
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