Dead center

Dead center or dead centre may refer to:

Engineering

 * Dead centre (engineering), a position of a crank where the applied force is straight along its axis
 * Dead center (tool), a type of lathe center used for accurately positioning a workpiece on an axis

Music

 * Dead Center (Game Theory album), a 1984 power pop album
 * Dead Center (Eric Alexander album), a 2004 jazz album
 * Dead Center Productions, a Ukraine-based record label for heavy metal music

Other media

 * deadCENTER Film Festival, an Oklahoma film festival established in 2001
 * "Dead Center", a 1954 science fiction novelette by Judith Merril
 * Dead Center, a 1993 film directed by Steve Carver
 * The Dead Center, a 2018 film starring Shane Carruth
 * Dead Center, a campaign in the 2009 video game Left 4 Dead 2
 * "Top Dead Center", a column by Kevin Cameron in Cycle World magazine