uncentre

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Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ centre

Verb[edit]

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

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for uncentre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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