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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
off-centre
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An off-centre opening at the back was secured with over 50 covered buttons.
▪ As in billiards, a direct collision results in backward scattering and an off-centre collision results in forward scattering.
▪ He had protruding ears and a thatch of curly hair that sat on his head like a woolly beret, slightly off-centre.
▪ It was one of those featureless, slightly off-centre voices.
▪ Moreover, and to add insult to injury, these off-centre policies are never supported by a clear majority of the electorate.
▪ The densely stitched image has a sketched, animated quality. it sits off-centre with an odd perspective, as if seen from above.
▪ The only thing that lets it down in this area is a slightly off-centre truss rod cover.
▪ With hindsight, such viewpoints may be seen as irrelevant, off-centre, or temporary.
Wiktionary
off-centre

a. 1 (context of an axis etc English) displaced from the centre 2 (context of a wheel etc English) eccentric, unbalanced

Wikipedia
Off-Centre

Off-Centre is a release by Meat Beat Manifesto which follows the album At The Center. Drums and percussion from tracks 1-4 are credited to David King. Steinway Grand Piano, Fender Rhodes and Hammond B3 instrumentation from tracks 1-4 are credited to Craig Taborn. Jack Dangers is crediting for writing, producing and engineering the album in addition to playing bass, bass flute, bass clarinet and everything else on tracks 1-4. Tracks 5 and 6 were recorded at Metro, Chicago, June 22, 2005. The live line up was Lynn Farmer on drums, Mark Pistel on sampler, and Ben Stokes and Jack Dangers on video sampler. One month before release Postcards and Maintain Discipline where available as free MP3s for download from Amazon.com. The album was released in CD format and 12" vinyl.

Usage examples of "off-centre".

Discovery might not be able to correct for the off-centre of mass, now that it was carrying a thousand tons piggyback.

Her off-centre expression made Oshi feel unaccountably uneasy, so she focussed on the wall instead.