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English
Etymology
From re- + center.
Verb
recenter (third-person singular simple present recenters, present participle recentering, simple past and past participle recentered)
- (transitive) To center (something) again.
1796 December 24–26 (date written), S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Ode on the Departing Year”, in Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, London: Rest Fenner, , published 1817, →OCLC, stanza IX, page 58: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.
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Adjective
recenter
- comparative degree of recent
Latin
Etymology
From recēns + -ter (adverb-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Adverb
recenter (comparative recentius, superlative recentissimē)
- lately, recently
- Synonym: recens
References
- recenter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “recenter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press