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Etymology

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pluri- +‎ -centric

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Adjective

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pluricentric (comparative more pluricentric, superlative most pluricentric)

  1. Having more than one center; multicentric.
    • 1910, John George Adami with Albert George Nicholls, The Principles of Pathology, page 693:
      Tumors which appear to grow from a single focus are spoken of as unicentric. Some growths are clearly pluricentric, or multicentric.
  2. (linguistics) (of a language) Having several interacting codified standard forms, often corresponding to different countries.

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  • (antonym(s) of having several standard forms): monocentric