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almost, but notquite, in acentralposition SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesCentres of objects - bowel
- central
- centrality
- centrally
- centre
- hub
- inner ring
- innermost
- inside
- interior
- internal
- internally
- median
- mid
- middle
- midway
- off-centre
- the bowels ofsomethingidiom
See more results » (Definition ofoff-centerfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofoff-centeroff-center A regular headphone jack, positioned slightlyoff-center, is integrated into the same edge as the power and volume buttons.FromArs Technica You'll notice the objects that disappear in the video are all slightlyoff-center.FromNBCNews.com He started exploring three-dimensional art, making pairs of sketches with the central object of one frame set just slightlyoff-center.FromHuffington Post And when those two met up, they together, when they coalesced, they kicked each otheroff-center.FromNPR But a pre-operative x-ray revealed that his bone had begun to re-knit itselfoff-center.FromForeign Policy The zany pattern has scientists baffled, as they were expecting to see daytime temperatures more akin to anoff-centerbull's eye.FromNational Geographic He is everything many of us knew he would be: bizarre,off-center, scary, nasty, unqualified and more.FromBuffalo News Anoff-centerlead will produce a point that gets progressively more difficult to sharpen evenly.FromHuffington Post This is called precession, and happens when a spinning object has anoff-centerforce on it.FromSlate Magazine With the pipeoff-center, the rams couldn't get a good hold of it, didn't get a clear cut and fell 2 inches shy of sealing properly.FromNOLA.com The show seemed sooff-center.FromLos Angeles Times The difference between a gold medal and 28th place is often a matter of a foot pulled a few degreesoff-center, or a shoulder dipped an inch too low.FromESPN It's slightly better if you're holding the tablet in landscape mode or (delicately) by the top, but even then it's a bit strange to have the cameraoff-center.FromArs Technica You may also want to sit just slightlyoff-centerto amplify the stereo effect seeing as how the dead center seat is the focal point for both audio channels.FromGizmodo She writes about slightlyoff-centermarriages or love affairs, about the thin boundaries in childhood between wonder and perversion, about real estate and, of all things, existential loneliness.FromNPR These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/off-center## |