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central (iou)



central adjective & noun. M17.
[French, or Latin centralis, from centrum CENTRE noun: see -AL1.]
A. adjective.
Of or pertaining to the centre or middle; situated in, proceeding from, containing or constituting the centre of anything. M17.
J. Hughes Around the central sun in circling eddies roll'd. R. Swinhoe The island..from its central position would form a good dep?t.
fig. Most important or significant; chief, leading, dominant; essential or fundamental to. M17.
E. B. Browning The central truth. B. Jowett Odysseus is the central figure of the one poem. N. Frye Literature seems..to be central to the arts.
b. Of a body, office, association, etc.: controlling all branches of an organization etc. from a common centre. E19.
Gladstone Commence not with local but central institutions. U. Bentley There's no central authority in this school.
Biology & Medicine. Involving or affecting the central nervous system (see below). M19.
Phonetics. Of a vowel: formed with the centre of the tongue raised (towards the juncture of the soft and hard palates). M20.
Special collocations: Central America the isthmus joining N. and S. America, extending from Mexico to Colombia. Central American (a native or inhabitant) of Central America. central bank: see BANK noun3 3. central force a force attracting or repelling from a centre. central heating (the apparatus for) warming a building by hot water or hot air or steam conveyed by pipes from a central source, or by a general system of radiators etc. central lobby: see LOBBY noun 3a. central nervous system the brain and spinal cord considered together. Central Powers Germany and Austria-Hungary before and during the war of 1914-18. central processing unit the part of a computer in which the control and execution of operations occur. central reservation: see RESERVATION 7b. central reserve: see RESERVE noun 4c. Central Time standard time used in central Canada and the US.
b. noun. Something central; esp. (US) a telephone exchange. L19.
centralism noun a centralizing system; (support for) centralization: M19.
centralist noun & adjective (a) noun an advocate of centralism; (b) adjective pertaining to or advocating centralism: E19.
centrally adverb in a central manner or position; with regard to the centre;
centrally-heated, equipped with central heating: LME.
centralness noun L19.