off-cen·ter

[awf-sen-ter, of-]
adjective
1.
not centered; diverging from the exact center.
2.
unconventional; eccentric: off-center characters who disrupt other people's lives.
Also, off-cen·tered.


Origin:
1925–30

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off-center

adjective
situated away from the center or axis 
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Off-center is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
In addition, common gamma ray bursts are normally spied off-center in the main
  bodies of galaxies.
But it's not, it's off-center, indicating the ring is not in that same plane.
Putting people off-center, maybe looking out at the vista, or hiking down the
  hill are all good solutions.
Place the plant in the container off-center and rotated forward at a slight
  angle to face the viewer.
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