anticenter

anticenter
/an"tee sen'teuhr, an"tuy-/, n.
1. Geol. the point on the surface of the earth diametrically opposite the epicenter of an earthquake.
2. Astron. the point on the celestial sphere diametrically opposite the galactic center.
[ANTI- + CENTER]

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