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uncentre

uncentre verb: to move from the centre.

Verb

uncentre (third-person singular simple present uncentres, present participle uncentring, simple past and past participle uncentred)

  1. (transitive) To move from the centre.
    • […]they will[…]perhaps know that centring is caused by an invisible control sequence, and be able to uncentre text by deleting these.1991, Alan Dix, Formal Methods for Interactive Systems, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 152

Forms of uncentre

third-person singular presentuncentres
present participleuncentring
past participleuncentred
pastuncentred
alternative formuncenter

Origin of uncentre

From un- + centre.

Questions about uncentre

What does uncentre mean?
Uncentre means to move from the centre.
What part of speech is uncentre?
Uncentre is a verb.
What is the past tense of uncentre?
The past tense of uncentre is uncentred.

Words near uncentre in the dictionary

  1. uncentral
  2. uncentralised
  3. uncentrality
  4. uncentralized
  5. uncentrally
  6. uncentre
  7. uncentred
  8. uncentredness
  9. uncentres
  10. uncentrifuged
  11. uncentring

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