The term center or centre is used in various contexts in abstract algebra to denote the set of all those elements that commute with all other elements.

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  1. ^ Kilp, Mati; Knauer, Ulrich; Mikhalev, Aleksandr V. (2000). Monoids, Acts and Categories. De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics. Vol. 29. Walter de Gruyter. p. 25. ISBN 978-3-11-015248-7.
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  3. ^ Durbin, John R. (1993). Modern Algebra: An Introduction (3rd ed.). John Wiley and Sons. p. 118. ISBN 0-471-51001-7. The center of a ring R is defined to be {cR: cr = rc for every rR}., Exercise 22.22