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  • 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.