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  • English Word Centralizing Definition of Centralize
  • English Word Centrally Definition In a central manner or situation.
  • English Word Centre Definition To be placed in a center; to be central.
  • English Word Centre Definition To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center.
  • English Word Centre Definition To place or fix in the center or on a central point.
  • English Word Centre Definition To collect to a point; to concentrate.
  • English Word Centre Definition To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
  • English Word Centre Definition See Center.
  • English Word Centrebit Definition An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.
  • English Word Centreboard Definition A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States
  • English Word Centred Definition of Centre
  • English Word Centrepiece Definition An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.
  • English Word Centric Definition Alt. of Centrical
  • English Word Centrical Definition Placed in the center or middle; central.
  • English Word Centricity Definition The state or quality of being centric; centricalness.
  • English Word Centrifugal Definition Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
  • English Word Centrifugal Definition Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
  • English Word Centrifugal Definition Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
  • English Word Centrifugal Definition A centrifugal machine.
  • English Word Centrifugence Definition The property or quality of being centrifugal.
  • English Word Centring Definition of Centre
  • English Word Centring Definition See Centring.
  • English Word Centripetal Definition Tending, or causing, to approach the center.
  • English Word Centripetal Definition Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit.
  • English Word Centripetal Definition Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos.
  • English Word Centripetal Definition Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.
  • English Word Centripetence Definition Centripetency.
  • English Word Centripetency Definition Tendency toward the center.
  • English Word Centriscoid Definition Allied to, or resembling, the genus Centriscus, of which the bellows fish is an example.
  • English Word Centrobaric Definition Relating to the center of gravity, or to the process of finding it.