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What does polycentric mean?

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Adjective
  1. Having many centres, especially centres of authority or control
  2. (genetics) (of a chromosomes, etc) Having multiple central parts
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In the years after 1956 the idea of a polycentric communist world won the support of the Italian Communist Party.
Cities are becoming polycentric, with workplaces and industries on the periphery.
The annual rates of growth in many countries and continents support this movement towards a more polycentric world.
The more our network is able to be representative of our geographical, cultural and political diversity, the more it will have influence in serving the same goal: multi-polar and polycentric globalisation.
There has been no strategy, no will to take practical measures, no polycentric Europe.
The word 'centralisation' is unfortunate in this context because it suggests a single centre of what is already a polycentric community.

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