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adjective
1.
Naval Architecture. of or pertaining to a metacenter.
2.
Genetics. of or pertaining to any chromosome or chromatid whose centromere is centrally located, creating two apparently equal chromosome arms. Compare acentric (def. 2), acrocentric, telocentric.
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metacentric met·a·cen·tric (mět'ə-sěn'trĭk)
adj.
Having the centromere of a chromosome in the median position so that the arms are of equal length. n.
A metacentric chromosome.
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