Both Uses of
concentric
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Moreover, on the free surface of the lake in Stephen's green amid inverted reflections of trees her uncommented spit, describing concentric circles of waterrings, indicated by the constancy of its permanence the locus of a somnolent prostrate fish (cf mousewatching cat).†
Chpt 17
- The upcast reflection of a lamp and shade, an inconstant series of concentric circles of varying gradations of light and shadow.†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
shapes having a common center, axis or origin with one inside the other