Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having many centers, especially of authority or control.
- adjective Having several central parts, as a chromosome with multiple centromeres.
- noun A polycentric chromosome.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having several centers or nucleal points.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having many
centres , especially centres ofauthority orcontrol - adjective of chromosomes, etc. Having multiple central parts
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Examples
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In 2006, it was "polycentric" - in January in Caracas, Venezuela and Bamako, Mali, then delayed until March in Karachi, Pakistan because of the area's earthquake.
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In 2006, it was "polycentric" - in January in Caracas, Venezuela and Bamako, Mali, then delayed until March in Karachi, Pakistan because of the area's earthquake.
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In 2006, it was "polycentric" - in January in Caracas, Venezuela and Bamako, Mali, then delayed until March in Karachi, Pakistan because of the area's earthquake.
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That's called polycentric governance, a very important concept which emerged from political science but now has a more genuine evolutionary formulation.
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Both employ a so-called polycentric four-bar mechanism to mimic the movements of a human knee.
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In challenging "polycentric", strategic decisions such as which of several schools to close, however - decisions involving the allocation of scarce public resources - judicial review is more difficult.
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One way he does this is by elaborating on the importance of what he called neo-gothic complex space, which is really a kind of polycentric criss-crossing of plural corporate bodies (or freely constituted participatory bodies to rip some of your language), and to show how French pre-Marxist/Engelsian socialism actually strongly favored intermediate institutions and little platoons, and that these concerns were only later stolen (and distorted) by the political right.
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BRIC summit to help form new 'polycentric' world order:
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BRIC summit to help form new 'polycentric' world order:
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BRIC summit to help form new 'polycentric' world order:
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