2. Adjective. pertaining to the location that is middle-most to ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Centred
1. centre [v] - See also: centre
Lexicographical Neighbors of Centred
Literary usage of Centred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mechanism of Weaving by Thomas William Fox (1894)
"centred TIES Another method of producing large effects from a small card is by
... 104 is a plan of a centred tie; from 1 to 400 the tie is straight, ..."
2. From Initial Education to Working Life: Making Transitions Workby OECD Staff, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope by OECD Staff, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope (2000)
"Learner-centred approaches to promoting lifelong learning The second set of
approaches to promoting lifelong learning within the transition phase focuses ..."
3. E-learning in Tertiary Education: Where Do We Stand? by OECD Staff, SourceOECD (Online service), SourceOECD (2005)
"Carnegie Mellon West and the Story-centred Curriculum Carnegie Mellon West, ...
The Carnegie Mellon West experience is based on a "Story-centred Curriculum" ..."
4. Field Engineering: A Hand-book of the Theory and Practice of Railway by William Henry Searles (1901)
"To determine the distance HH' between the middle points of a simple curve and a
three-centred compound curve joining the same tangent points AB. Fig. 54. ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"... the literature of the Greeks had almost centred in the metropolis ; and,
without computing the extent of our loss we may drop a tear over the libraries ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"It was known commonly as a " Sacramentary " (Sacramentarium), because all its
contents centred round the great act of the ..."
7. The Bookman (1903)
"I once thought of writing a novel centred in the oil region, and went so far as
to write a number of chapters. ..."
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