Nautical[Naval Archit.]of or pertaining to a metacenter.
Geneticsof 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
met•a•cen•tric•i•ty(met′ə sen tris′i tē),USA pronunciationn.