centerfold

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Editorial note

I mean, I looked at the centerfold, but mostly paid attention to the story.

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Quick take

A large photograph printed on this sheet, typically in the form of a nude, or provocatively dressed, sexually attractive woman or man.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A large photograph printed on this sheet, typically in the form of a nude, or provocatively dressed, sexually attractive woman or man.

noun

The person appearing in such a photograph.

noun

(by extension) Any very sexually attractive person, who is therefore material for such a photograph.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for centerfold.

noun

A large photograph printed on this sheet, typically in the form of a nude, or provocatively dressed, sexually attractive woman or man.

noun

The person appearing in such a photograph.

noun

(by extension) Any very sexually attractive person, who is therefore material for such a photograph.

noun

The single larger sheet of paper that forms the middle two pages of a magazine or other publication, folded so as to open wider than a standard page spread.

Example sentences

I mean, I looked at the centerfold, but mostly paid attention to the story.

When the nudity in question was a Playboy magazine centerfold, the primary intent is fairly obvious.

As explained in the article it's the top half of a playboy centerfold (there's a link to the full version in there).

For the curious: 'lena' or 'lenna' is a digitized Playboy centerfold, from November 1972.

Seems better than using a literal Playboy centerfold.

It's from a Playboy centerfold in 1972[1].

I assumed it was a wink to the Nov 1972 Playboy model[1] whose centerfold face became a de facto baseline test image for DSP algorithms without consent.

What's the difference between me slapping a commercial MP3 on a research project involving real-time graphics and audio processing, and a colleague using a copyrighted Playboy centerfold (1) to demonstrate their image processing algorithm?

In retrospect photoshopping his head onto a playboy centerfold and resediting it into the extension and removing the reply button, and then sending it to him during class on the projector, well that was probably a bit much.

If you keep using a crop of your mother from her Playboy centerfold in the '70s as a test case for your algorithms, and you encourage other scientists to use the same picture, I might be a bit weirded out.

The engineers tore away the top third of the centerfold so they could wrap it around the drum of their Muirhead wirephoto scanner, which they had outfitted with analog-to-digital converters (one each for the red, green, and blue channels) and a Hewlett Packard 2100 minicomputer.

As a teen, I'd printed it out, pinned it up on my wall next to the Cray-1 centerfold, and scribbled a bunch of modem phone numbers, user names and passwords all over it, and never even noticed.

Quote examples

The lawyer got a box of chips and a magazine, opened to the centerfold, and said "no one's confusing this for that."

Her full quote btw: “Once upon a time, I was the centerfold of Playboy,” says the former model in the new documentary Losing Lena.

This seems to fall victim to the same "sin" as the original post - calling out the women in a way which could be easily misconstrued as a Playboy centerfold biography.

"Lenna's issue (November 1972) was Playboy's best selling issue ever and sold 7,161,561 copies." "Very few people have seen the complete original picture." Do most people that buy Playboy stop reading before getting to the centerfold?