Central

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  • adjective. Situated at, in, or near the center.
  • adjective. Forming the center.
  • adjective. Having dominant or controlling power or influence.
  • adjective. Of basic importance; essential or principal.
  • adjective. Easily reached from various points.
  • adjective. Of or constituting a single source controlling all components of a system.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or originating from the nervous system.
  • adjective. Relating to a centrum.
  • adjective. Articulated in the middle of the oral cavity; neither front nor back. Used of vowels, as the u in cut.
  • adjective. Holding to a moderate ideological position between two extremes.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A telephone exchange.
  • noun. An operator at a telephone exchange.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A location or agency for the control or coordination of a group of related activities.
  • noun. A location or area of intense activity.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Cane-grinding apparatus which serves for several sugar plantations.
  • In an at., of or relating to the centrum of a vertebra.
  • In neural., pertaining to a nerve-center: opposed to peripheral, or pertaining to the nerve-fibers or to the nervous terminations in sense-organs and muscles.
  • noun. In a telephone system, the office from which the public and private lines radiate and in which the connections are made between the different lines, by means of a central switch-board.
  • Pertaining to or constituting the center: as, the central point of a circle; a central country of Europe.
  • Nuclear in constitution or principle; constituting that from which other related things proceed, or upon which they depend: as, the central facts of history; a central idea.
  • Passing through or near the center or middle; median: as, a central line; the New York Central Railroad.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.
  • adjective. Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points.
  • adjective. a force acting upon a body towards or away from a fixed or movable center.
  • adjective. a name given to a hypothetical body about which Mädler supposed the solar system together with all the stars in the Milky Way, to be revolving. A point near Alcyone in the Pleiades was supposed to possess characteristics of the position of such a body.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. being in the centre
  • adjective. being the most important
  • adjective. having or containing the centre of something
  • adjective. being very important, or key to something
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. serving as an essential component
  • adjective. in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area
  • noun. a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
  • Word Usage
    "The enormous depth of alluvial soil found in the _bolsones_ or depressions of the Mexican plateau, formed from rock-decay, or of volcanic material accumulated by the great lakes of recent times which covered them in the central part of the great _mesa central_, bear striking evidence to the filling-up process of the past."
    Equivalent
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    entrail  ventral  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    entire  inner  main  western  
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