Centrés

Centrés is the masculine plural form of the French adjective centré, meaning centered or focused. It is used to describe something that is oriented toward the center or is located at the center. The feminine plural form is centrées, and the feminine or masculine singular forms are centré and centrée, respectively. As a past participle, centrés can appear in compound tenses and agrees with the noun it modifies.

In practice, centrés appears in a variety of contexts. In typography and layout, it describes text or elements that are aligned with the center, for example, texte centré. In design, images or blocks can be described as centrés to denote central alignment. In statistics and data processing, data can be described as centrés (centered) when the mean has been subtracted or otherwise re-centered for analysis, as in data centering.

Etymologically, centrés derives from the verb centrer, with the standard past participle ending -é. It should be distinguished from centriste/centrisme, which refer to political centrism, and from centre/central, which denote the noun or adjective related to the middle point or core.

See also: centrer, centre, centrage, centriste, centrism. Note that centrés functions as an adjective and not typically as a standalone noun.