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miscenterings

miscenterings is the plural of miscentering.

Meaning of miscentering

Noun

miscentering (plural miscenterings)

  1. A mistaken centering
    • Galaxy cluster miscentering is especially a concern for stacked weak lensing shear studies of galaxy clusters, where offsets between the assumed and the true underlying matter distribution can lead to a significant bias in the mass estimates if not accounted for.2016, Jes Ford, Jake VanderPlas, “Cluster-lensing: A Python Package for Galaxy Clusters & Miscentering”, in arXiv

Questions about miscenterings

What is miscenterings the plural of?
Miscenterings is the plural of miscentering.

Words near miscenterings in the dictionary

  1. miscensure
  2. miscensured
  3. miscensures
  4. miscensuring
  5. miscentering
  6. miscenterings
  7. miscertification
  8. miscertifications
  9. miscertified
  10. miscertifies
  11. miscertify

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miscenterings (page history and authors); miscentering (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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