acentric
Plural: acentrics
Adjective
- Having no center.
- lacking a centromere
- "an acentric chromosome fragment"
Adjective Satellite
- not centered or having no center
Adj
- Not centered; without a centre
Noun
- A segment of a chromosome that lacks a centromere
Examples
- His strategy was acentric, focusing on small words at the edges of the board.
Origin / Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”, privative prefix) + κέντρο (kéntro, “a point, a center”). By surface analysis, a- + centric.
Scrabble Score: 12
acentric: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordacentric: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
acentric: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 15
acentric: valid Words With Friends Word