acentric

/eɪˈsɛntrɪk/
adjective
  1. Lacking a center; not having a central point or focus.
    • The acentric arrangement of furniture made the room feel chaotic.
    • In an acentric design, no single element dominates the layout.
    • The artist's acentric composition made the painting feel unbalanced.
  2. In biology, describing a chromosome or chromosome fragment that lacks a centromere.
    • Acentric chromosomes are often lost when cells divide because they have no centromere.
    • The scientist identified an acentric fragment that had broken off during mitosis.
    • An acentric chromosome cannot attach properly to the spindle during cell division.
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