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uncentring

uncentring is the present participle and gerund of uncentre.

Meaning of uncentre

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

Questions about uncentring

What is uncentring the present participle and gerund of?
Uncentring is the present participle and gerund of uncentre.

Words near uncentring in the dictionary

  1. uncentre
  2. uncentred
  3. uncentredness
  4. uncentres
  5. uncentrifuged
  6. uncentring
  7. uncenturied
  8. uncentury
  9. uncerebral
  10. unceremented
  11. unceremonial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uncentring (page history and authors); uncentre (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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