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CENTRIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does centric mean? 

CENTRIC (adjective)
  The adjective CENTRIC has 1 sense:

1. having or situated at or near a centerplay

  Familiarity information: CENTRIC used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CENTRIC (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or situated at or near a center

Synonyms:

centric; centrical

Similar:

central (in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area)

Derivation:

center (a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure)

center (an area that is approximately central within some larger region)


 Context examples 


The EVS Project also produces the NCI Metathesaurus, which is based on NLM's Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus supplemented with additional cancer-centric vocabulary.

(NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services, NCI Thesaurus)



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