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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From Ancient Greek κεντρικός.

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