Centrebit :: Centrebit (n.) An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3..

Centreboard :: Centreboard (n.) 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.

Centred :: Centred () of Centr.

Centrepiece :: Centrepiece (n.) An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure..

Centric :: Centric (a.) Alt. of Centrica.

Centrical :: Centrical (a.) Placed in the center or middle; central.

Centricity :: Centricity (n.) The state or quality of being centric; centricalness.

Centrifugal :: Centrifugal (a.) Tending, or causing, to recede from the center..

Centrifugal :: Centrifugal (a.) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster..

Centrifugal :: Centrifugal (a.) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos..

Centrifugal :: Centrifugal (n.) A centrifugal machine.

Centrifugence :: Centrifugence (n.) The property or quality of being centrifugal.

Centring :: Centring () of Centr.

Centring :: Centring (n.) See Centring.

Centripetal :: Centripetal (a.) Tending, or causing, to approach the center..

Centripetal :: Centripetal (a.) Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit..

Centripetal :: Centripetal (a.) Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos..

Centripetal :: Centripetal (a.) Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone..

Centripetence :: Centripetence (n.) Centripetency.

Centripetency :: Centripetency (n.) Tendency toward the center.

Centriscoid :: Centriscoid (a.) Allied to, or resembling, the genus Centriscus, of which the bellows fish is an example..

Centrobaric :: Centrobaric (a.) Relating to the center of gravity, or to the process of finding it..

Centrode :: Centrode (n.) In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center..

Centroid :: Centroid (n.) The center of mass, inertia, or gravity of a body or system of bodies..

Centrolecithal :: Centrolecithal (a.) Having the food yolk placed at the center of the ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal..

Centrolinead :: Centrolinead (n.) An instrument for drawing lines through a point, or lines converging to a center..

Centrolineal :: Centrolineal (a.) Converging to a center; -- applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center.

Centrosome :: Centrosome (n.) 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.

Centrostaltic :: Centrostaltic (a.) A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center.

Centrum :: Centrum (n.) The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra..

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