Acentric may refer to: *

Acentric factor The acentric factor is a conceptual number introduced by Kenneth Pitzer in 1955, proven to be useful in the description of fluids. It has become a standard for the phase characterization of single and pure components, along with other state desc ...

, in thermodynamics, the measure of the non-sphericity (acentricity) of molecules *

Acentric chromosome An acentric fragment is a segment of a chromosome that lacks a centromere. Because the centromere is the point of attachment for the mitotic apparatus, acentric fragments are not evenly distributed to the daughter cells in cell division (mitosis ...

, in genetics, a chromosome without centromere *

Acentric fragment An acentric fragment is a segment of a chromosome that lacks a centromere. Because the centromere is the point of attachment for the mitotic apparatus, acentric fragments are not evenly distributed to the daughter cells in cell division (mitosis ...

, in genetics, a chromosome segment lacking a centromere

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