Word Meanings - EXCENTRAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Out of the center.

Related words: (words related to EXCENTRAL)

• CENTERING
  See 6
• CENTERBIT; CENTREBIT
  An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.
• CENTERBOARD; CENTREBOARD
  A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel
• CENTERPIECE; CENTREPIECE
  An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.
• CENTER; CENTRE
  1. To be placed in a center; to be central. 2. To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center. Where there is no visible truth wherein to center, error is as wide as men's fancies. Dr. H. More. Our hopes
• CENTERFIRE CARTRIDGE
  See CARTRIDGE
• CENTER
  A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position util the work becomes self-supporting. One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
• CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
  To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
• SELF-CENTERING; SELF-CENTRING
  Centering in one's self.
• SELF-CENTERED; SELF-CENTRED
  Centered in itself, or in one's self. There hangs the ball of earth and water mixt, Self-centered and unmoved. Dryden.
• ORTHOCENTER
  That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.
• CIRCUMCENTER
  The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.
• METACENTER; METACENTRE
  The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center
• INCENTER
  The center of the circle inscribed in a triangle.
• UNCENTER; UNCENTRE
  To throw from its center.
• RECENTER
  To center again; to restore to the center. Coleridge.