Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
epicenter .
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Examples
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U.N. anti-AIDS organisation UNAIDS, which says that Africa remains the "epicentrum" of the deadly illness: 12.2 million women and 10.1 million men in Africa have the AIDS virus, or two-thirds of the world's total.
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According to the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics agency (BKMG), the quake's epicentrum is located in the northern Sulawesi waters at a depth of 29 kilometers.
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