decentre
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /diːˈsɛntə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Verb
decentre (third-person singular simple present decentres, present participle decentring, simple past and past participle decentred)
- To remove the centre from. to decentre the tyres from some model vehicle kits.
- (optics) To place away from the centre; to make eccentric.
- To displace from the centre.
- 2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin, published 2008, page 14:
- The Saidian critique was part of a great sea change, a conscious attempt to ‘decentre’ Europe or even to ‘provincialize’ it.
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