The Collaborative International Dictionary
off-center \off-center\ off-centered \off-centered\adj. situated away from the center or axis.
WordNet
adj. situated away from the center or axis [syn: off-centered]
Usage examples of "off-center".
Gurronsevas felt the sudden, invisible tug of the tractor beam, but it was off-center so that it pulled only on his forebody and sharply increased his rate of spin.
Then Mortimer said something maddeningly oblique, and Nerita replied with the same off-center mystification, and Mein once more was plunged into the river of their easy dancing wordplay, down into it, down and down and down, and as he struggled to keep from drowning, as he fought to comprehend their interchanges, he never once looked toward the place where Sybille sat, not even once, and congratulated himself on having accomplished that much at least in his masquerade.
It had scraped the sky clean of clouds, leaving it a slatey blue with the sun off-center in it like a frozen yellow eye.
Fifteen lateral feet of the left side of the 727 was wide open, except for the ragged remains of the cargo door, now twisted and shredded and held in place by the off-center airflow Doc was creating over the top of the jet by yawing left.
Slowly the ship turned about her axes, centrifugal forces giving an off-center surrogate of gravity.
F'lessan's grin might have been a trifle off-center as Keita changed dressings to reassure herself that no stitches had broken, but he remained unrepentant.
And perhaps they were not shooting out from this off-center spot at all.
He had flipped over on his back on the unmoving bodies and his antiarmor laser was already tracing an off-center square in the ceiling before he recognized on a conscious level that he would not, could not, face whatever awaited him at the bottom of the elevator shaft.
He wanted to keep it open just a little, like an off-center drag chute, to complete his shoreward turn by air resistance.
His thrust was off-centered and caught Alla just as she was bent to sit on the slide.
And thus, in divine egoism, I am other-directed, off-centered, out of my true self and out of my right mind.
Lack of strength and off-centered balance from the babe made me sit down again quite abruptly.
She had for a time wondered why the little house had been placed off-center on its plot of ground, not square with the streets around the park.
Presumably, store employees passing such a display would notice if a can were dangerously off-center and push it back into position.
The gray stone object, about fifty centimeters high, resembled an oddly twisted urn with an off-center opening.