Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

recenter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.29 in modern English

Syllables: re-cen-ter
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To center (something) again.

Transitive verb

adj

comparative form of recent: more recent

Example Sentences

"Now I recenter my immortal mind / In the deep sabbath of meek self-content; / Cleans'd from the vaporous passions that bedim / God's Image, sister of the Seraphim."
"18.1 Scrolling C-l (recenter-top-bottom) is a basic scrolling command. It recenters the selected window, scrolling it so that the current screen line is exactly in the center of the window, or as close to the center as possible."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *ḱéntrom Proto-Hellenic *kéntron Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron)bor. Latin centrumder. Middle French centrebor. Middle English center English center English recenter From re- + center.

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

recenters (present, singular) recentering (participle, present) recentered (participle, past) recentered (past) recentre (alternative)

Questions

What does recenter mean?: To center (something) again.
Where does recenter come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *ḱéntrom Proto-Hellenic *kéntron Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron)bor. Latin centrumder. Middle French centrebor. Middle English center English center English recenter From re- + center.

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