metacentric

1. 1.

   of or relating to the metacenter

   shipbuilding

2. 2.

   having two equal arms because of the median position of the centromere

   “a metacentric chromosome”

Questions about metacentric

What does metacentric mean?

metacentric means "of or relating to the metacenter". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in metacentric?

metacentric has 4 syllables and divides as me-ta-cen-tric under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is metacentric a common word?

metacentric is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.