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Central

Central Meaning & Definition
Central Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Central?

[n] a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
[adj] in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area; "a central position"; "central heating and air conditioning"
[adj] centrally located and easy to reach; "the central city has good bus service"; "the shop has a central location"
[adj] serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"
[adj] used in the description of a place that in the middle of another place; "the people of Central and Northern Europe"; "country in central Africa"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Central: amidship | bicentric | bifocal | cardinal | center(a) | centered | centric | centrical | exchange | focal | fundamental | halfway | important | inner(a) | key | medial | median | middle(a) | middlemost | midmost | midway | nuclear | of import | primal | telephone exchange

Related Terms | Find terms related to Central: aboriginal | accented | all-absorbing | alveolar | amidships | apical | apico-alveolar | apico-dental | arch | articulated | assimilated | automatic exchange | average | axial | back | banal | banner | barytone | basal | basic | bedrock | bilabial | broad | cacuminal | capital | cardinal | center | centermost | central office | centralized | centric | centroidal | centrosymmetric | cerebral | champion | checked | chief | close | common | concentrated | consonant | consonantal | continuant | controlling | core | crowning | crucial | deep | dental | dissimilated | dominant | dorsal | elemental | elementary | embryonic | equatorial | equidistant | essential | first | flat | focal | foremost | front | fundamental | generative | genetic | geocentric | germinal | glide | glossal | glottal | great | guttural | halfway | hard | headmost | heavy | hegemonic | high | important | in embryo | in ovo | indispensable | indoor | inmost | inner | innermost | inside | interior | intermediary | intermediate | internal | intestine | intimate | intonated | intrinsic | inward | key | labial | labiodental | labiovelar | lateral | lax | leading | life-and-death | life-or-death | light | lingual | liquid | long distance | low | machine-switching office | magisterial | main | master | material | mean | medial | median | mediocre | mediterranean | medium | mesial | mezzo | mid | middle | middlemost | middle-of-the-road | middling | midland | midmost | midships | midway | moderate | monophthongal | muted | narrow | nasal | nasalized | normal | nuclear | occlusive | of vital importance | omphalic | open | operator | ordinary | original | outstanding | overriding | overruling | oxytone | palatal | palatalized | panel switching | paramount | PBX operator | pharyngeal | pharyngealized | phonemic | phonetic | phonic | pitch | pitched | pivotal | posttonic | predominant | preeminent | pregnant | preponderant | prevailing | primal | primary | prime | primeval | primitive | primordial | principal | pristine | protogenic | radical | ranking | retroflex | rounded | routine | rudimentary | ruling | salient | seminal | semivowel | signal | significant | soft | sonant | sovereign | standard | star | stellar | stopped | stressed | strong | substantive | supereminent | surd | switchboard operator | syllabic | telephone exchange | telephone office | telephone operator | telephonist | tense | thick | throaty | tonal | tonic | topflight | twangy | umbilical | unaccented | unrounded | unstressed | usual | velar | vital | vocalic | vocoid | voiced | voiceless | vowel | vowellike | weak | wide

See Also | centrex | patchboard | phone system | plugboard | switchboard | telephone system | work | workplace

Central In Webster's Dictionary

\Cen"tral\, a. [L. centralis, fr. centrum: cf. F. central. See {Center}.] Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center
\Cen"tral\, Centrale \Cen*tra"le\, n. [NL. centrale, fr. L. centralis.] (Anat.) 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.

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