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Etymology
From Ancient Greek κεντρικός (kentrikós), equivalent to centre + -ic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛntɹɪk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛntɹɪk
Adjective
centric (comparative more centric, superlative most centric)
- Being in the centre; central.
- 1661, John Donne, Elegie XVIII:
- So we her ayres contemplate, words and heart, / And virtues; but we love the Centrique part.
- (physics) Pertaining to a nerve centre.
- (of diatoms) Being a member of the subclass Coscinodiscophyceae (corresponding to the Centrales.)
Hyponyms
- egocentric
- galactocentric
- geocentric
- heliocentric
- hydrocentric
- IT-centric
- pyrocentric
- selenocentric
- thanatocentric
Derived terms
- alterocentric
- Amerocentric
- apocentric
- bronchocentric
- centrical
- centrically
- centricity
- corticocentric
- dicentric
- ecocentric
- eucentric
- eukaryocentric
- gastrocentric
- isocentric
- logocentric
- monocentric
- mycocentric
- myocentric
- neocentric
- neurocentric
- noncentric
- organocentric
- pathocentric
- pericentric
- photocentric
- renocentric
- subcentric
- unicentric
- vasculocentric
- venocentric
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