Meanings
recenter1
present singular third person recenters · participle present recentering · participle past recentered · past recentered · alternative recentre
- transitiveTo center (something) again.
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.
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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.
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
recenter2
Origin
- Proto-Italic*wre-
- Latinre-
- Old Frenchre-
- Middle Englishre-
- Englishre-
- Latincentrum
- Middle Frenchcentre
- Middle Englishcenter
- Englishcenter
- Englishrecenter
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recenter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recenter
“recenter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recenter. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “recenter,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recenter.
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