Centrati

Centrati is a term that appears in Romance-language contexts as an inflected form meaning centered or focused. It is most commonly encountered in Italian, where centrati is the masculine plural past participle of centrare and can also function as an adjective describing multiple masculine nouns. The feminine singular, masculine singular, and feminine plural forms are centrato, centrati, centrata, and centrate, respectively. The root cent- derives from centro, meaning center.

In practice, centrati is used to describe items that have been positioned at the center or oriented toward a center, whether literally (centered objects, aligned elements) or metaphorically (centered goals or ideas). In Italian grammar, it aligns with gender and number in agreement with the nouns it modifies, and appears in compound verbal forms with essere (essere centrati) as well as in adjectival use.

Centrati does not designate a distinct technical concept or named theory in standard reference works; rather, it functions as a common inflected form derived from centrare. The word illustrates typical Romance-language patterns of participles acting as adjectives, with parallel forms across related languages that share the same root centro.

See also: centering, centric, centroid, centration. Note that in cognitive psychology, centration refers to a well-documented phenomenon describing a tendency to focus on a single aspect of a problem, a usage distinct from the Italian grammatical form centrati.