| ADJECTIVE | pert | metacentric | of or relating to the metacenter |
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| pert | metacentric | having two equal arms because of the median position of the centromere |
| Meaning | Of or relating to the metacenter. | |
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| Category | shipbuilding, ship building | The construction of ships |
| Spanish | metacéntrico | |
| Nouns | metacenter | (shipbuilding) the point of intersection between two vertical lines, one line through the center of buoyancy of the hull of a ship in equilibrium and the other line through the center of buoyancy of the hull when the ship is inclined to one side |
| Meaning | Having two equal arms because of the median position of the centromere. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "a metacentric chromosome" | |
| Spanish | metacéntrico | |
| Nouns | centromere | a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape |
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