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Hub

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

Pronunciation: /hʌb/, /hʊb/

What “Hub” means

Noun

  1. The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
  2. A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed, or diverted.
  3. A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub.
  4. A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.
  5. A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.

Where the word comes from

From earlier hubbe, which has the same immediate origin as hob. Hub was originally a dialectal word; its ultimate origin is unknown. Compare German Hubbel (“bump on a surface”), from Proto-West Germanic *hubil (“bump, hill”) (which contains a diminutive suffix *-il); compare English hive, or perhaps ultimately from the same root as hip or hop.

Meanings and etymology from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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