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Concentric objects

Geometric objects with a common centre

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 2, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

In geometry, two or more objects are said to be concentric when they share the same center. Any pair of objects with well-defined centers can be concentric, including circles, spheres, regular polygons, regular polyhedra, parallelograms, cones, conic sections, and quadrics.

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The public source identifies “Concentric objects” as geometric objects with a common centre. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Concentric, objects and Geometric.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 40-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Concentric, objects and Geometric providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Concentric objects” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.