— metacentricity /met'euh sen tris"i tee/ , n.
/met'euh sen"trik/ , adj.
1. Naval Archit. of or pertaining to a metacenter.
2. Genetics. of or pertaining to any chromosome or chromatid whose centromere is centrally located, creating two apparently equal chromosome arms. Cf. acentric , (def. 2), acrocentric, telocentric .
[ META- + -CENTRIC ]