recenter

English

Alternative forms

• recentre

Etymology

re- +‎ center

Verb

recenter (third-person singular simple present recenters, present participle recentering, simple past and past participle recentered)

1. (transitive) To center (something) again.
   • 1796 December 24–26 (date written), S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Ode on the Departing Year”, in Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, London: Rest Fenner, […], published 1817, →OCLC, stanza IX, page 58:

     Now I recenter my immortal mind / In the deep sabbath of meek self-content; / Cleans'd from the vaporous passions that bedim / God's Image, sister of the Seraphim.

   • 18.1 Scrolling

     C-l (recenter-top-bottom) is a basic scrolling command. It recenters the selected window, scrolling it so that the current screen line is exactly in the center of the window, or as close to the center as possible.

Anagrams

• Terrence, recentre

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adjective

recenter

1. comparative degree of recent

Latin

Etymology

From recēns +‎ -ter (adverb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /reˈken.ter/, [rɛˈkɛn̪t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈt͡ʃen.ter/, [reˈt͡ʃɛn̪t̪er]

Adverb

recenter (comparative recentius, superlative recentissimē)

1. lately, recently

   Synonym: recens

References

• recenter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “recenter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press