A tendency to place the capital of a country at its geographical centre, or to increase the powers of central government at the expense of local government.

A border town in Perlis, northern Malaysia. / A corresponding border town in Songkhla province, southern Thailand.

Relating to trichinosis.

(transitive) To regard, label, or treat as an other, as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien. / (transitive) To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.