Hub
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ÊŒb
Origin
From earlier hubbe, which has the same immediate origin as hob. Hub was originally a dialectal word; its ultimate origin is unknown.
Full definition of hub
Noun
hub
(plural hubs)- The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
- A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed or diverted.
- 2013-06-08, The new masters and commanders, From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.... But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
- Hongkong airport is one of the most important air traffic hubs in Asia.
- (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.
- (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.