body-centered

American  

[bod-ee-sen-terd] / ˈbɒd iˌsɛn tərd /

adjective

Crystallography.

1. (of a crystal structure) having lattice points at the centers of the unit cells.

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Etymology

Origin of body-centered

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

These included a body-centered cubic arrangement, where an extra atom sits in the middle of the cube, or a face-centered cubic arrangement, where atoms occupy the centers of each face.

From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026

She was treated with traditional talk therapy and somatic therapy, a form of body-centered therapy, to explore the effect of stress on her body.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2022

Metal atoms can pack in hexagonal closest- packed structures, cubic closest-packed structures, body-centered structures, and simple cubic structures.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

After leaving Antioch College in Ohio two years shy of graduating, Ms. O’Connell joined an experimental theater company in Boston, where she studied the body-centered techniques of the Polish theater director Jerzy Grotowski.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2016

Note: I realize it’s dicey to use a body-centered metaphor to discuss a young female artist, and one who distances herself from the anatomical foregrounding in contemporary pop at that.

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2014