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decentring

decentring is the present participle and gerund of decentre.

Meaning of decentre

Verb

decentre (third-person singular simple present decentres, present participle decentring, simple past and past participle decentred)

  1. To remove the centre from.
    • to decentre the tyres from some model vehicle kits
  2. To place away from the centre; to make eccentric.
  3. To displace from the centre.
    • The Saidian critique was part of a great sea change, a conscious attempt to ‘decentre’ Europe or even to ‘provincialize’ it.2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin, published 2008, page 14

Noun

decentring (plural decentrings)

  1. The process by which something is decentred.

Forms of decentring

pluraldecentrings

Questions about decentring

What does decentring mean?
Decentring means the process by which something is decentred.
What is decentring the present participle and gerund of?
Decentring is the present participle and gerund of decentre.
What part of speech is decentring?
Decentring is a noun.
What is the plural of decentring?
The plural of decentring is decentrings.

Words near decentring in the dictionary

  1. decentre
  2. decentred
  3. decentrer
  4. decentrers
  5. decentres
  6. decentring
  7. decentrings
  8. decenylene
  9. decephalization
  10. decephalizations
  11. decephalize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: decentring (page history and authors); decentre (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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