hub - What does it mean?

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(wikipedia)

(en-noun)

The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.

A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed or diverted.

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(computing) A computer networking device connecting several ethernet ports. See switch .

(surveying) A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.

A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.

(obsolete) The hilt of a weapon.

(Halliwell)

(US) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.

a hub in the road

A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.

A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.

A screw hob.

A block for scotching a wheel.

* hubbed * hubbing

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