epicenter
Meaning of epicenter
noun
the point on the earth's surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake.
late 19th century: from Greek epikentros ‘situated on a centre’, from epi ‘upon’ + kentron ‘centre’.
Information about epicenter
- It is a name.
- The plural form of epicenter is: epicenters.
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Hyphenation of epicenter
epi-cen-ter
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- epicenter is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Translation of epicenter
- French: épicentre
- Spanish: epicentro
- Italian: epicentro
- Portuguese: epicentro
- German: Epizentrum
Anagrams of epicenter
Words that rhyme with epicenter
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