detention center
Definition of detention center
1 : a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept for a period of time
2 : a place where people who have committed crimes are kept as punishment She spent several months in a detention center for women. a juvenile detention center
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: the act or fact of detaining or holding back
: a holding in custody
: the state of being detained
: the point around which a circle or sphere is described
: a point that is related to a geometrical figure in such a way that for any point on the figure there is another point on the figure such that a straight line joining the two points is bisected by the original point —called also center of symmetry
: the center of the circle inscribed in a regular (see 1regular 2b) polygon
: to place or fix at or around a center or central area
: to give a central focus or basis
: to adjust (things, such as lenses) so that the axes coincide
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