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Definition of Decentring
1. decentre [v] - See also: decentre
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decentring
Literary usage of Decentring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Elementary Course of Civil Engineering by Joseph Mathieu Sganzin (1828)
"decentring.— Wooden Bridges. The masonry of piers, abutments, and even the
commencement of the arches, when of large span, of which we shall now speak, ..."
2. An Elementary Course of Civil Engineering by Joseph Mathieu Sganzin (1837)
"decentring.— Wooden Bridges. The masonry of piers, abutments, and even the
commencement of the arches, when of large span, of which we shall now speak, ..."
3. Squint: Its Causes, Pathology and Treatment by Claud Alley Worth (1903)
"But if the patient has to wear fairly strong lenses, and if the required prismatic
effect is small, this may be secured by decentring the spectacle glass. ..."
4. The Microscope: An Illustrated Monthly Designed to Popularize the Subject of (1891)
"The decentring turn tables are so arranged that a slide finished off on a plain
... The Griffith turn table has the best decentring arrangement that I have ..."
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