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centric

1

[ sen-trik ]

adjective

  1. pertaining to or situated at the center; central.
  2. Anatomy, Physiology. pertaining to or originating at a nerve center.


-centric

2
  1. a combining form with the meanings “having a center or centers” of the specified number or kind ( polycentric ); “centered upon, focused around” that named by the first element ( ethnocentric; heliocentric ).

centric

1

/ sɛnˈtrɪsɪtɪ; ˈsɛntrɪk /

adjective

  1. being central or having a centre
  2. relating to or originating at a nerve centre
  3. botany
    1. Alsoconcentric (of vascular bundles) having one type of tissue completely surrounding the other
    2. (of leaves, such as those of the onion) cylindrical


-centric

2

suffix forming adjectives

  1. having a centre as specified

    heliocentric

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Derived Forms

  • ˈcentrically, adverb
  • centricity, noun

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Other Words From

  • centri·cal·ly adverb
  • cen·tric·i·ty [sen-, tris, -i-tee], noun
  • multi·centric adjective
  • un·centric adjective
  • un·centri·cal adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of centric1

1580–90; < Greek kentrikós of, pertaining to a cardinal point, equivalent to kéntr ( on ) ( center ) + -ikos -ic

Origin of centric2

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Word History and Origins

Origin of centric1

abstracted from eccentric , concentric , etc

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Example Sentences

To my opinion, content must be branded but should be consumer-centric at the same time.

Knowing this, brands need to be looking at an even more mobile-centric future in 2021 and beyond.

Granted, this has become harder to do over the years, especially as conventions have become more TV-centric and prepackaged.

These keywords will perform less well than brand-centric keywords.

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User-generated content, vertical videos on social media, stories, and short creatives – video marketing is steadily growing user-centric.

In many ways these attitudes reflect the increasingly urban-centric focus of the party.

It was the scene that launched a thousand HBO subscriptions—and one misguided, mammary-centric New Yorker think piece.

Second, the government may be responding to a quaint if U.S.-centric urge to care for its own.

Technically, White should seem out of step with our current pop-centric culture: leaden, irrelevant, dinosauric.

And “Two Swords” was one of the show's finest character-centric episodes to date.

Serious reverses soon followed, and the fatally ex-centric position of the corps in Naples was then immediately apparent.

To my mind, Professor Perry rendered philosophic discussion a real service when he coined the phrase "ego-centric predicament."

But this deep-set theoretic notion had to give way, and the helio-centric theory may, in its turn, have to give way also.

Children of four are not nearly so completely ego-centric as those of three.

He was kind to the poor, walked much, talked to himself as he walked, and was known by the humble sort as "a'centric."

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