To place in or on a center; draw to a center; determine the center of; be or converge in the center.
The middle point of anything, especially of a circle.
That, then, should be the centre of my search. – The Hound of the Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle
London is the great centre of the fur trade of the world. – Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert A. Sterndale