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central

adj
/ˈsɛntɹ(ə)l/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-der. Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron)der. Latin centrum Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin centrālisbor. English central Borrowed from Latin centrālis, from centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron); by surface analysis, centre + -al.

  1. derived from κέντρον
  2. borrowed from centrālis

Definitions

  1. Being in the centre.

    • Egyption Thebes; / Tyre by the margin of the sounding waves; / Palmyra, central in the Desert, fell; / And the Arts died by which they had been raised.
    • The network had no central ownership or controller; and it did only one thing – transfer data packets from one edge of the network to their destination at another edge.

  2. Having or containing the centre of something.

  3. Being very important, or key to something.

    • Cleverley was a central figure as England took the lead inside three minutes. He saw his shot handled by Moldovan defender Simion Bulgaru and Lampard drilled home the penalty in trademark fashion.
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    1. Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.

    2. Belong or relating to the center of an algebraic structure.

    3. center

    4. A former local government region in central Scotland, created in 1975 mainly from…

      A former local government region in central Scotland, created in 1975 mainly from Stirlingshire, abolished in 1996 and divided into 3 council areas: Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling (which were districts within the region).

    5. An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.

      • The best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central.
      • Thousands of protesters block the main street leading to the financial area known as the Central district outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong on Sept. 28, 2014.

    6. The Central Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Central London…

      The Central Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Central London Railway.

    7. A district of Rasht County, Gilan Province, Iran.

    8. A barangay of Tarlac City, Tarlac, Philippines.

    9. Of or pertaining to the Central Powers.

      • On this score, then, it is quite clear that up to now neither the Entente nor the Central armies have been outmanœuvred, or indeed have invented a weapon of offence that has produced decisive results.

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Derived

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA