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Definition of Centring
1. n. See Centring.
Definition of Centring
1. Verb. (present participle of centre) ¹
2. Noun. The act of moving something to the centre ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Centring
1. a temporary framework for an arch [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Centring
Literary usage of Centring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"centring. A timber framework or mould, upon which the masonry of an arch or vault is
... The centring for a stone arch is composed of parallel frames or ..."
2. Principles of Microscopy: Being a Handbook to the Microscope by Almroth Wright (1906)
"... condenser—centring adjustment of the substage condenser—Purpose of the centring
adjustment of the condenser, and method of centring—Method of employing ..."
3. The Microscope: An Illustrated Monthly Designed to Popularize the Subject of (1891)
"Watson's plain and self centring ; National, volute, and probably several others
which I have not seen. According to the price, turn tables are divided into ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1858)
"On the centring of the Lenses of the Compound Object- Glasses of Microscopes.
... If such a distinguished artist as Dollond failed in centring a group of ..."
5. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Henry Dallinger (1891)
"Elaborate rectangular centring gear has been used by some makers, ... In fact
exact centring would have to be readjusted for every separate objective if it ..."
6. A Treatise on Levelling, Topography, and Higher Surveying by William Mitchell Gillespie (1876)
"The operations of centring the eye-piece and object- glass should precede the
... centring the Object-glass. After • adjusting the line of collimation for a ..."
7. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1879)
"... placed under the covering-glass in the usual way, the plants will invariably
die. Self-centring Turn-table. A self-centring turn-table is described by ..."
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