deadcenter

See also: dead-center and dead center

English

Adjective

deadcenter (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of dead-center
   • 1970, United States. Patent Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 74:

     Off the deadcenter position, the spring retains the flap and the locking pawl in their locking positions.

Adverb

deadcenter (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of dead-center
   • 1988, Field & Stream- Volume 93:

     And with the hook placed deadcenter in the back, rather than in the mouth or tail, the fish can carry the load without swimming suspiciously off-kilter.

Noun

deadcenter (plural deadcenters)

1. Alternative form of dead-center
   • 1911, Oil Field Engineering: (1911) - Volume 13, page 519:

     Turn the engine so that one of the cranks is about ten degrees beyond the top deadcenter.

2. (engineering) Alternative form of dead center.

Verb

deadcenter (third-person singular simple present deadcenters, present participle deadcentering, simple past and past participle deadcentered)

1. Alternative form of dead-center
   • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 52:

     He about deadcentered your pocketbook didn't he?

Anagrams

• dead centre