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What is the noun for hub?

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hub
  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. (computing) A computer networking device connecting several ethernet ports. See switch.
  4. (surveying) A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.
  5. A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.
  6. (obsolete) The hilt of a weapon.
  7. (US) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.
  8. A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.
  9. A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
  10. A screw hob.
  11. A block for scotching a wheel.
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  13. Examples:
    1. “In this model, the city serves as a hub for the civic work of these entities and its own agencies.”
      “The hub of the wheel is also the largest single steel casting ever made.”
      “The unsavoury reputation of the place as a drug-peddling hub could be one reason.”
hubcap
  1. A decorative and protective disk that covers the hub of a motor car wheel
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Anyway, the hose led over and attached to the center of the hubcap on the rear tire on that side.”
      “Nearly any hubcap of the correct size will fit any standard steel wheel that will take a hubcap.”
      “For the raccoons, he left food scraps in a hubcap dish leashed by chain to a tree so the animals wouldn't drag it under the cottage.”
hubness
  1. (mathematics) The tendency of high-dimensional data to contain points (hubs) that frequently occur in k-nearest-neighbor lists of other points.
hubs
  1. (slang, as a term of endearment) husband
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Chapter 5 briefly discusses devices evolved from original repeaters, bridges and routers like hubs, faster and virtual LAN techniques.”
      “As well as being defensible strongholds and elite private residences, most castles were also the hubs of estates.”
      “These wheels were purchased preassembled, with keyways already cut into the hubs.”
hubs
  1. plural of hub
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Chapter 5 briefly discusses devices evolved from original repeaters, bridges and routers like hubs, faster and virtual LAN techniques.”
      “As well as being defensible strongholds and elite private residences, most castles were also the hubs of estates.”
      “These wheels were purchased preassembled, with keyways already cut into the hubs.”
hubcaps
  1. plural of hubcap
  2. Examples:
    1. “The damage was two rims beyond repair, two tyres damaged, two hubcaps damaged and the suspension damaged.”
      “They then tossed in some simple color-coordinated shelving, eye-catching wall decor and a few hubcaps.”
      “In the old days eye-candy items such as a coachwork paint line or chrome hubcaps were the great standby, not to mention the vinyl roof.”
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