CPage 113
- English Word Centrode Definition In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.
- English Word Centroid Definition The center of mass, inertia, or gravity of a body or system of bodies.
- English Word Centrolecithal Definition Having the food yolk placed at the center of the ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal.
- English Word Centrolinead Definition An instrument for drawing lines through a point, or lines converging to a center.
- English Word Centrolineal Definition Converging to a center; -- applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center.
- English Word Centrosome Definition A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.
- English Word Centrostaltic Definition A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center.
- English Word Centrum Definition The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra.
- English Word Centrums Definition of Centrum
- English Word Centry Definition See Sentry.
- English Word Centumvir Definition One of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections.
- English Word Centumviral Definition Of or pertaining to the centumviri, or to a centumvir.
- English Word Centumvirate Definition The office of a centumvir, or of the centumviri.
- English Word Centumviri Definition of Centumvir
- English Word Centuple Definition Hundredfold.
- English Word Centuple Definition To increase a hundredfold.
- English Word Centuplicate Definition To make a hundredfold; to repeat a hundred times.
- English Word Centuplicated Definition of Centuplicate
- English Word Centuplicating Definition of Centuplicate
- English Word Centurial Definition Of or pertaining to a century; as, a centurial sermon.
- English Word Centuriate Definition Pertaining to, or divided into, centuries or hundreds.
- English Word Centuriate Definition To divide into hundreds.
- English Word Centuriator Definition Alt. of Centurist
- English Word Centuries Definition of Century
- English Word Centurion Definition A military officer who commanded a minor division of the Roman army; a captain of a century.
- English Word Centurist Definition An historian who distinguishes time by centuries, esp. one of those who wrote the "Magdeburg Centuries." See under Century.
- English Word Century Definition A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.
- English Word Century Definition A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago.
- English Word Century Definition A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.
- English Word Century Definition One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion.