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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 is pronounced /ˈɛpəˌsɛntɚ/ — EP-uh-sen-tur. 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.