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centreing

centreing is the present participle and gerund of centre.

centreing is the alternative form of centring.

Meaning of centre

Noun

centre (plural centres)

  1. Australia, UK, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa standard spelling of center.
    • So after a short spell in the brass foundry the wisest course was to follow with a similar period in the steel foundry, where much important work was done, including the manufacture of centres for wheels.1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343

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Forms of centreing

pluralcentreings

Questions about centreing

What is centreing the present participle and gerund of?
Centreing is the present participle and gerund of centre.

Words near centreing in the dictionary

  1. centrefire
  2. centrefires
  3. centrefold
  4. centrefolds
  5. centreground
  6. centreing
  7. centreings
  8. centreless
  9. centrelessness
  10. centreline
  11. centrelines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: centreing (page history and authors); centre (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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