2. Verb. (optics) To place away from the centre; to make eccentric. ¹
3. Verb. To displace from the centre. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decentre
1. to decenter [v -TRED, -TRING, -TRES] - See also: decenter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decentre
Literary usage of Decentre
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1875)
"... constructed screw-collar, whose movements decentre the component lenses: a
very little error in this mechanical adjustment produces huge derangement. ..."
2. Squint: Its Causes, Pathology and Treatment by Claud Alley Worth (1903)
"In a lens of the ordinary stock size, there is room to decentre a medium-sized
spectacle glass about 3 mm., ie, a total of 6 mm. in the two eyes. ..."
3. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciencesedited by [Anonymus AC02809657] edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1891)
"He says that it appears also possible to decentre this small glass in such a
manner that when com- ..."
4. What Holds Us Together: Social Cohesion in South Africa by David Chidester, Philip Dexter (2004)
"... he tries very hard to refer to non-European experience, he fails to decentre
globalisation adequately to acknowledge its many non-Western features. ..."
5. Lectures on the errors of refraction and their correction with glasses by Francis Valk (1895)
"Consequently, to attain this object, in ordering glasses, you must decentre them,
by placing the centre of the convex glass inward, and the centre of the ..."
6. Oculo-refractive Cyclopedia and Dictionary by Thomas George Atkinson (1921)
"Prism Dioptres Produced by Decentration Per Millimeter. When it is desired to
decentre a lens both horizontally and vertically at the same time, ..."
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