-centric
/ˈsɛntrɪk/
-centric suffix: having a specified number of centres.
Suffix
-centric
- Having a specified number of centres.
- Having a specified object at the centre, or as the focus of attention.
- When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying...2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020
- Decades of road-centric planning and policies have tilted the playing field strongly against public transport use.2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 34
-centric meaning in Tamil
-centric in Tamil
- முதன்மையான அக்கறை கொண்டிருத்தல்
Origin of -centric
Representing a combining form of Ancient Greek κεντρικός (kentrikós, “central”). Cognate with Bengali -কেন্দ্রিক (-kendrik)
Questions about -centric
- What does -centric mean?
- -centric means having a specified number of centres.
- What is -centric in Tamil?
- -centric in Tamil is முதன்மையான அக்கறை கொண்டிருத்தல். See -centric meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is -centric?
- -centric is a suffix.
- How do you pronounce -centric?
- -centric is pronounced /ˈsɛntrɪk/.
Words near -centric in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: -centric (page history and authors); -centric (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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