-centric
suff.（后缀）
suff.（后缀）
- Having a specified kind or number of centers:
表示有中心的：具有确定的种类或几个中心的：
polycentric.
多中心的 - Having a specified object as the center:
表示以…为中心的：以确定的物体为中心的：
geocentric.
地心的
-centric
suffix forming adjectives
having a centre as specified
⇒
heliocentric
Origin
abstracted from eccentric, concentric, etc-centric
Word Origin
1
a combining form with the meanings “having a center or centers” of the specified number or kind (polycentric); “centered upon, focused around” that named by the first element (ethnocentric; heliocentric).
Origin
see centr-, -ic
Related Words
- acrocentric
- androcentric
- anthropocentric
- barycentric coordinate system
- Christocentric
- endocentric
-centrica combining form meaning:
1. having a centre or centres of the specified number or kind, as in polycentric.
2. focused on or inclined towards a specified interest or controlling factor, as in Anglocentric, Sydney-centric, phallocentric.
3. centred on or directed towards a specified focal point, as in heliocentric.
-centric
adjective combining form
polycentric
2. having (something specified) as its center
heliocentric
adjective combining form
ETYMOLOGY Medieval Latin -centricus, from Latin centrum center
1. having (such) a center or (such or so many) centerspolycentric
2. having (something specified) as its center
heliocentric
-centric
combining form
- having a specified centre表示“有…中心的”：
-
geocentric.
- ■ forming an opinion or evaluation originating from a specified viewpoint表示“有以…为特定视角的观点的”：
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Eurocentric
ethnocentric.
派生词
-centricity combining form
in corresponding nouns
词源
from Greek kentrikos, on the pattern of words such as （con）centric.
-centric
word-forming element meaning "having a center (of a certain kind); centered on," from Latinized form of Greek kentrikos "pertaining to a center," from kentron (see center, n.).
-centric
having one or more centers:
having one or more centers:
geocentric, heliocentric, multicentric
ORIGIN: After concentric eccentric Greek kentrikos : see centric
☞ centric
-cen·tric
\|sen.trik, -rēk\ adjective combining form
Etymology: Middle English -sentrik (in consentrik concentric), from Medieval Latin -centricus (in concentricus concentric, eccentricus eccentric) — more at eccentric
: having (such) a center or (such or so many) centers
< heterocentric >
< homocentric >
< polycentric >
: having (something specified) as its center
< anthropocentric >
< heliocentric >
< heterocentric >
< homocentric >
< polycentric >
: having (something specified) as its center
< anthropocentric >
< heliocentric >
-centric
Suffix
- having a specified number of centres
- having a specified object at the centre, or as the focus of attention 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.