Zero offset means the rim centerline is in line with the mounting surface. From Wordnik.com. [F&S Guide to Truck Wheels] Reference
Negative offset means the centerline is outboard of the mounting surface; positive offset means the centerline is inboard of the mounting surface. From Wordnik.com. [F&S Guide to Truck Wheels] Reference
New grass was growing up in the centerline of the alley. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
Suddenly the centerline tank blew off and both Shrikes fired. From Wordnik.com. [On Yankee Station]
What if Walter hadn't realized he'd driven over the centerline?. From Wordnik.com. [sometimes they suck all the way to the end.. .] Reference
Jager's centerline was parallel to the flow a few minutes later. From Wordnik.com. [The Heirs of Babylon]
They were able to get it right down the centerline of the runway. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2005] Reference
Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a rugged north-south centerline for the entire. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Ridge, a rugged north-south centerline for the entire Atlantic basin. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
With its centerline tank jettisoned, the F-4E almost ran out of fuel. From Wordnik.com. [Strategic Air Command: People Aircraft and Missiles 2nd Edition]
Together they formed a symmetrical shape with a horizontal centerline. From Wordnik.com. [Mandala « A Fly in Amber] Reference
The check valves are placed slightly below the centerline of the boiler. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964] Reference
It was a small affair, ovoid in shape, and poised on two centerline wheels. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
"The car Gary was driving was going way too fast, and he crossed the centerline.". From Wordnik.com. [a quiet way to go] Reference
The McDonnell Douglas refuelling boom is located under the centerline of the aft fuselage. From Wordnik.com. [Strategic Air Command: People Aircraft and Missiles 2nd Edition]
He stood on the centerline of the bridge, carefully lining his jackstaff up with the quay. From Wordnik.com. [Red Storm Rising]
She turned the Lear onto the runway, straightened the nosewheel, and lined up with centerline. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffin Dancer]
Test vehicle for J93 engine of XB-70 (installed in centerline nacelle); 1 converted from B-58A. From Wordnik.com. [Strategic Air Command: People Aircraft and Missiles 2nd Edition]
The main fore-and-aft passageway was on the port side instead of the centerline, for one thing. From Wordnik.com. [Red Storm Rising]
Two cars collide in a street the centerline of which is the boundary between the city and the county. From Wordnik.com. [Sheldon Drobny: What The Candidates Should Know: Government Spending] Reference
In other words, from his previous life experience, is he able to maintain the centerline on this issue. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2002] Reference
He planned to take the risk and make his men run across the centerline at this spot in another three hours. From Wordnik.com. [Venus in Danger]
And you notice that line, the centerline, if that were to verify, that would go just to the west of Houston. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2008] Reference
Obama is the chicken that runs back and forth across the road until it's finally squashed on the centerline. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Short And Unremarkable Presidency] Reference
Up sharply to skin level in a V around his centerline, washing over his nipples ... it is love, it is amazing. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
Malky was making to cross the road towards Rebus, but stopped at the centerline and stretched his arm, pointing. From Wordnik.com. [Resurrection Men]
Daoud climbed a ladder, raised the heavy door, and found himself on a walkway built over the centerline of a roof. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Then she had seen Dwight, following their example, take the centerline, too, and drop straight into the hydraulic. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
The motorized wheels of Central's transport carts were useless in the low gravity areas of the centerline corridor. From Wordnik.com. [Angelmass]
A guy driving in Alaska, he has a DVD on the dashboard, crosses the centerline, smashes into a Jeep, two people die. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2004] Reference
It was accomplished, not by magic, but by reaction against the contrary spin of a flywheel located on her centerline. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
The one who was driving when a drunk swerved across the centerline and erased Tiffany and most of my memories of her. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
He drifted across the centerline and then off the edge of the road, hitting a pothole that violently shook the truck. From Wordnik.com. [Circling Lake Chapala] Reference
The record shows that they remained at exactly 37,000 feet along the perfect centerline of the route they had been assigned. From Wordnik.com. [William Langewiesche on the Amazon air crash] Reference
We're already rotating around our centerline; so what we do now is put a slow dual-yaw rotation on the ship and watch the display. From Wordnik.com. [Angelmass]
A long, sluggish river that someone had dubbed the Zambezi ran from north to south a little to the west of the plain's centerline. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf's Children]
But the pilots, look at that, they never left the centerline of the runway, using the rudder, their rudder pedals, to steer the aircraft. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2005] Reference
Tatum made two rocket attacks against his target, but on the third pass his aircraft was hit,, causing a fire at the aircraft centerline. From Wordnik.com. [Tatum, Lawrence B.] Reference
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