decentre
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /diːˈsɛntə(ɹ)/
decentre (decentres, present participle decentring; past and past participle decentred)
- To remove the centre from.
- (optics) To place away from the centre; to make eccentric.
- To displace from the centre.
- 2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin 2008, p. 14:
- The Saidian critique was part of a great sea change, a conscious attempt to ‘decentre’ Europe or even to ‘provincialize’ it.
- 2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin 2008, p. 14:
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