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The composition of a cento; the act or practice of composing a cento or centos.

Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points. Central force (Math.), a force acting upon a body towards or away from a fixed or movable center. -- Center sun (Astron.), a nam…

The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.

The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.

The state of being central; tendency towards a center. Meantime there is a great centrality, a centripetence equal to the centrifugence. R. W. Emerson.

The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city.

To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control. [To] centralize the power of government. Bancroft.

In a central manner or situation.

See Center.

Placed in the center or middle; central. At York or some other centrical place. Sir W. Scott. -- Cen"tric*al*ly, adv. -- Cen"tric*al*ness, n.

The state or quality of being centric; centricalness.

Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.

der with a porous or foraminous periphery is rapidly rotated so as to drive off liquid by centrifugal action.

The property or quality of being centrifugal. R. W. Emerson.

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Tending, or causing, to approach the center.

Centripetency.

Tendency toward the center.

Allied to, or resembling, the genus Centriscus, of which the bellows fish is an example.

Relating to the center of gravity, or to the process of finding it. Centrobaric method (Math.), a process invented for the purpose of measuring the area or the volume generated by the rotation of a line or surface about a fixed axis, depending upon the principle that every figure formed by the revolution of a line or s…