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say it: EP-uh-sen-tur
epicenter is a noun meaning "the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake". It carries one recorded sense.
the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for epicenter come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.