Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Situated at or near the center; central.
- adjective Having a center.
- adjective Having radially symmetrical valves. Used of diatoms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In petrography, applied by Becke (1878) to rock fabrics formed by the grouping of crystals about a center, radially or concentrically.
- Central; basic; fundamental.
- Originating at or connected with a central point: as, a centric nervous disease (that is, one depending on a brain-lesion, for example, as contrasted with a peripheral disease affecting the nerves in their course).
- noun A circle the center of which is the same as that of the earth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Placed in the center or middle; central; situated at or near a center.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Being in the
centre ;central . - adjective physics Pertaining to a nerve centre.
- adjective of diatoms Being a member of the class Centrales
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or situated at or near a center
Etymologies
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Examples
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Asia-centric is usually code for lots of ninjas, and DD knows a bit about fighting them.
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Changing the cookie system from unique ID-centric to segment-centric is a large technical challenge and might take some sites, ad networks, and widgets many months to complete.
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Changing the cookie system from unique ID-centric to segment-centric is a large technical challenge and might take some sites, ad networks, and widgets many months to complete.
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Changing the cookie system from unique ID-centric to segment-centric is a large technical challenge and might take some sites, ad networks, and widgets many months to complete.
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US clients are among the most satisfied with Latin American-centric outsourcing services delivery averaging 90. 8% with 2009 projects.
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Latin American-centric providers are defined as having their headquarters and majority of service delivery centers in South America, Central America or Mexico.
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Key finding: most important customer satisfaction KPIs for clients utilizing Latin American-centric vendors
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Key finding: most important customer satisfaction KPIs for clients utilizing Latin American-centric vendors
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Key finding: vendor dissatisfaction is uncommon in the Latin American-centric technology, particularly in the applications development and software testing sectors among top ranked suppliers Strong dissatisfaction in this geographically-specific ITO sector occurred in 7. 3% of the first year clients, but only 2. 8% of clients beyond their 13th month or more of contracted relations.
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