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acrocentric

acrocentric adjective: (of a chromosome) Having the centromere very near to one end, and thus having a long arm, and a very short arm.

Adjective

acrocentric (comparative more acrocentric, superlative most acrocentric)

  1. (of a chromosome) Having the centromere very near to one end, and thus having a long arm, and a very short arm.

Noun

acrocentric (plural acrocentrics)

  1. A chromosome that has the centromere very near to one end, and thus has a long arm, and a very short arm.
    • This may be the result of misalignment, nonallelic gene conversion or other biological mechanisms that maintain large-scale homology between the short arms of the acrocentrics—a phenomenon that we have studied in an associated paper²².2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313

acrocentric meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

acrocentric in Tamil

கைகால் நீளவேறுபாடு, அக்ரோ செண்ட்ரிக, முகடு மைய

acrocentric in Malayalam

acrocentric
അക്രോസെന്റ്രിക്ക് akrōsenṟrikkŭ, അഗ്രകേന്ദ്രീകൃതം agrakēndrīkr̥taṁ

Forms of acrocentric

Adjective
comparativemore acrocentric
superlativemost acrocentric
Noun
pluralacrocentrics

Origin of acrocentric

From acro- + -centric.

Words formed from acrocentric

Questions about acrocentric

What does acrocentric mean?
Acrocentric means (of a chromosome) Having the centromere very near to one end, and thus having a long arm, and a very short arm.
What is acrocentric in Tamil?
Acrocentric in Tamil is கைகால் நீளவேறுபாடு, அக்ரோ செண்ட்ரிக, முகடு மைய. See Acrocentric meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is acrocentric?
Acrocentric can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near acrocentric in the dictionary

  1. acrocallosal
  2. acrocapitofemoral
  3. acrocarp
  4. acrocarpous
  5. acrocarps
  6. acrocentric
  7. acrocentricity
  8. acrocentrics
  9. acrocephalia
  10. acrocephalic
  11. acrocephalics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acrocentric (page history and authors); acrocentric (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); അക്രോസെന്റ്രിക്ക് (Malayalam) (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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