Usually means: Center point directly above earthquake.
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  1. epicentre: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. epicentre: Collins English Dictionary
  3. epicentre: Vocabulary.com
  4. Epicentre, epicentre: Wordnik
  5. epicentre: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. epicentre: Wiktionary
  7. epicentre: Dictionary.com
  8. Epicentre: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. epicentre: Rhymezone
  10. epicentre: FreeDictionary.org
  11. epicentre: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. epicentre: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. epicentre: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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noun:  (seismology) The point on the land or water surface directly above the focus, or hypocentre, of an earthquake.
noun:  (military) The point on the surface of the earth directly above an underground explosion.
noun:  (figuratively, proscribed) The focal point of any activity, especially if dangerous or destructive.
noun:  (figuratively, proscribed) The geographical area in which an ongoing disaster, illness, crisis, or other destructive event is currently most severe.
verb:  Of an earthquake: to have its epicentre (at a specified location).

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