decentre

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decentre

(diːˈsɛntə) or

decenter

vb (tr)

1. (Architecture) to take away a temporary support from

2. to deprive of a central position

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decentre

decenter (US) [diːˈsentəʳ] VT → descentrar

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Lee (1971), and found that the children who fail to decentre, have lack of solving moral conflict.

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Lenses with excessive lens sag will lack a defined TxZ, typically decentre inferiorly and may display bubbles in the RC (see Figure 5a).

Adding ortho-k to your practice: This article provides a guide to get practitioners started with ortho-k contact lens fitting, covering the equipment needed, optimal fitting characteristics and troubleshooting tips

As Finet points out, "in its essence, anarchism 'decenters' power, in the same way that Salvadora Medina Onrubia 'decenters' her heroines." ("dans son essence, l'anarchisme 'decentre' le pouvoir, de la meme fagon que Salvadora Medina Onrubia 'decentre' ses heroines" [Finet, "Salvadora" [323]).

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According to the calls to decentre, to kenosis and hospitality of the affirmation, missionaries do not walk in front of or behind the rest, but with them.

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Duraisingh, a professor at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., began by asking them to to "decentre" themselves and their churches so that they can truly serve the world.

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Caption: Figure 1 (A) Contact lenses often decentre inferior temporally (blue circle), yet the pupil will often decentre superior nasally (yellow circle), offsetting the optics from the pupil centre; (B) The pupil offset is often subtle, and average decentration of the pupil is usually less than 0.5mnn in any direction; however, this can have a big effect on the intricate multifocal optics placement

Facing the perplexing presbyope: This article provides an overview of presbyopic contact lens fitting, and addresses some of the challenges encountered in complex cases, offering simple and advanced approaches to management

Roving insists that a recognition of the violence of the postcolonial experience encoded in this understanding of hybridity will not only offer new ways of reading Caribbean migrant women's texts, but will more importantly help to decentre a Western/European conceptual framework and make space for the legitimization of other concepts and frameworks operating from the margins.