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Decentred vs Decentre - What's the difference?

decentred | decentre |

As verbs the difference between decentred and decentre

is that decentred is past tense of decentre while decentre is to remove the centre from.

decentred

English

Verb

(head)
  • (decentre)

    • decentre

    English

    Verb

    (decentr)
  • 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.

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    decentre

    English

    Verb

    (decentr)
  • 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.

    • Anagrams

    *