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Acentric

Definitions: Acentric

Acentric

Adjective

1. Lacking a centromere; "an acentric chromosome fragment".

2. Not centered or having no center.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Acentric \A*cen"tric\, adjective. [from Greek expression 'a priv. point, center.]. (Websters 1913)

"Acentric" is a common misspelling or typo for: acetic, centric, eccentric.

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Crosswords: Acentric

English words defined with "acentric": acentric chromosome. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Acentric

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Acentric Labyrinth: Giordano Bruno's Prelude to Contemporary Cosmology (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Acentric

Expression using "acentric": acentric chromosome. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Acentric

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

acentric factor

3
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Modern Translations: Acentric

Language Translations for "acentric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

ацентричен. (various references)

   

Danish

  

acentromerisk fragment (acentric fragment), acentrisk kromosom (acentric chromosome). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

acentromerisch fragment (acentric fragment), acentrisch chromosoom (acentric chromosome). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

asentrinen fragmentti (acentric fragment). (various references)

   

French

  

fragment acentromérique (acentric fragment), fragment acentrique (acentric fragment), chromosome décentré (acentric chromosome), chromosome acentromérique (acentric fragment). (various references)

   

German

  

azentrisches Fragment (acentric fragment), azentrisches Chromosom (acentric chromosome). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ακεντρικό θραύσμα (acentric fragment), ακεντρομεριδικό χρωμόσωμα (acentric fragment), ακεντρομεριδικό θραύσμα (acentric fragment). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

középpont nélküli. (various references)

   

Italian

  

frammento acentrico (acentric fragment). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acentricay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

cromossomo acêntrico (acentric chromosome). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

acéntrico (acentric fragment), fragmento acéntrico (acentric fragment). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Acentric

Derivations

Words ending with "acentric": metacentric, submetacentric. (additional references)

Words containing "acentric": metacentrics, submetacentrics. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Acentric"

Words rhyming with "acentric" (pronounced 'A*cen"tric'): Agastric, Anelectric, Anthropocentric, Barycentric, Cacogastric, Christocentric, Dielectric, Digastric, Dynamo-electric, Entogastric, Epigastric, gastric, Hepatogastric, homocentric, Hydro-electric, Hypogastric, Idioelectric, Jovicentric, Mesogastric, Metagastric, Monogastric, Neptunicentric, Nitric, Orchestric, Palaestric, Perigastric, Photo-electric, Pneumogastric, Resino-electric, Saturnicentric, Scioptric, Selenecentric, Spectroelectric, Stereoelectric, Stomatogastric, Telelectric, thermoelectric, Trigastric, Urogastric, Veratric, Volta-electric, Yttric. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Acentric

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-n-r-t"

-1 letter: centric, ceratin, certain, creatin, tacrine.

-2 letters: accent, acetic, acetin, arctic, cancer, canter, cantic, carnet, carnie, centai, centra, cretic, cretin, enatic, nectar, ratine, recant, retain, retina, tanrec, trance.

-3 letters: actin, antic, antre, areic, cacti, cairn, caner, caret, carte, cater, cerci, ceria, ceric, circa, citer, crane, crate, enact, entia, erica, inert, inter, irate, nacre, naric, nicer, niter, nitre, rance, react, recta, recti, retia, riant, tenia, terai, tinea, trace, train, triac, trice, trine.

-4 letters: acne, acre, airn, airt, ante, anti, cain, cane, cant, care, carn, cart, cate, ceca, cent, cine, cire, cite, earn, etic, etna, narc, near, neat, nice, nite, race, rain, rani, rant, rate, rein, rent, rice, rite, tace, tain, tare, tarn, tear, tern, tier, tine, tire.

-5 letters: ace, act, ain, air, ait, ane, ani, ant, arc, are, art, ate, can, car, cat, ear, eat, era, ern, eta, ice, ire, nae, net, nit, ran, rat, rec, rei, ret, ria, rin, tae, tan, tar, tea, ten, tic, tie, tin.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-i-n-r-t"
 

+1 letter: accreting, accretion, anorectic, circinate.

 

+2 letters: accretions, anorectics, anticancer, cantatrice, cocreating, concertina, inaccurate, pancreatic.

 

+3 letters: accipitrine, accoutering, accrediting, acrocentric, anacreontic, antisecrecy, areocentric, bacteriocin, brecciating, brecciation, cantatrices, centrically, chanticleer, circinately, concertinas, contractile, contractive, contrivance, electrician, incarcerate, intricacies, metacentric, narcoleptic, necromantic, neocortical, reaccenting, reaccepting, revaccinate.

 

+4 letters: accelerating, acceleration, accipitrines, accretionary, acrocentrics, actinometric, anacreontics, androcentric, anticlerical, bacteriocins, brecciations, centralistic, chanticleers, charactering, circumjacent, circumstance, coacervation, consecrating, consecration, consecrative, contractible, contradicted, contrivances, correctional, counterclaim, criticalness, cybernetical, electricians, excruciating, excruciation, gynecocratic, inaccurately, incarcerated, incarcerates, interoceanic, intervocalic, metacentrics, narcoleptics, nonarchitect, precipitance, precipitancy, recalcitrant, recontacting, reluctancies, reoccupation, revaccinated, revaccinates, scratchiness, technocratic, tetracycline, transoceanic, trenchancies, trochanteric, unaccredited, uncirculated, undemocratic.

 

+5 letters: accelerations, accreditation, anticlericals, architectonic, attractancies, backcountries, certificating, certification, chromonematic, circumambient, circumstanced, circumstances, cliometrician, coacervations, concentrating, concentration, concentrative, concretionary, confectionary, conglomeratic, consecrations, contraception, contraceptive, counteracting, counteraction, counteractive, counterclaims, cyanobacteria, cybernetician, decorticating, decortication, eccentrically, excruciations, gerontocratic, incarcerating, incarceration, intercortical, intergalactic, intraspecific, nonaccredited, nonarchitects, nondemocratic, nonelectrical, phallocentric, plantocracies, practicalness, precipitances, preoccupation, pyrotechnical, reaccrediting, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitrants, recalculating, recalculation, reciprocating, reciprocation, recirculating, recirculation, rectification, reoccupations, revaccinating, revaccination, technocracies, tetracyclines.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Acentric


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 63 65 6E 74 72 69 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -.-.    .    -.    -    .-.    ..    -.-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#99 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#114 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0065 006E 0074 0072 0069 0063

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3569718086847569

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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