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bicentric en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi-bor. English bi- Proto-Indo-European *ḱen-? Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Indo-European *ḱéntrom Proto-Hellenic *kéntron Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek κεντρικός (kentrikós)der. English -centric English bicentric From bi- + -centric.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having two centres.
  2. (comparable) Having a bisexual bias or basis.
    • Everybody that came over here and then left had essentially the same reaction: YUCK. A large part of that "yuck" was the highly evolved bisexuals who were quick at the gun with anything that didn't fit their bicentric notion of the universe. That a great deal of that bicentrism was thinly veiled homophobia didn't bother them in the least. 1996 October 7, Michael Thomas, “Re: The Curious Blinkers of Michael Thomas”, in soc.bi (Usenet):

Forms

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most bicentric Degree=Sup lexicographic
more bicentric Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

bicentric triangle · bicentric quadrilateral · bicentric polygon · bicentric perspective

Relateds

bicentrism · bicentricity