单词 | centralization |
释义 | centralizationn. 1. The action or process of bringing to or gathering at a centre; the fact of being centralized in this way; esp. the action or process of concentrating governmental or administrative power and control in a central place or authority, from which subsidiary agencies are controlled and to which they are responsible (cf. centralize v. 1); an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [noun] > making or becoming central centration1642 centring1648 centralization1797 society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > centralized or regionalized systems > [noun] > centralism centralization1797 centralism1825 centralizing1829 omphalism1868 1797 tr. J. Necker On French Revol. II. 49 He had continually insisted upon the great advantage which the French Nation derived from..the centralization of power. 1797 tr. F. Pagès Secret Hist. French Revol. II. xxvii. 166 A centralization of powers, which was fabricated in a fortnight, and called a revolutionary government. 1801 W. Dupré Lexicographia-neologica Gallica 44 Such is the effect of the centralization of government. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 763/2 This tendency to centralization is still more conspicuous in the Phyllosoma. 1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty v. 204 The greatest possible centralization of information, and diffusion of it from the centre. 1916 Amer. School Board Jrnl. Jan. 11/2 In each of these States, there has been centralization; that is, powers have been collected from the minor jurisdictions into the superior. 1920 U.S. Bull. Service 11 Oct. 885/1 Recent tendencies toward centralization of industry are shown in the sharp trend of the population from the rural to the urban districts. 1991 Antiquity 65 975/2 All had effects on local populations and their resources, all contributed to various periods of centralization and dispersal. 2015 Irish Times (Nexis) 2 Feb. 2 The centralisation of breast cancer surgery into the eight designated cancer centres where previously it had been carried out in 32 centres. 2. Phonetics. The alteration of a vowel sound so as to be produced in a more central (central adj. 7) position. Cf. centralized adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [noun] > types of > articulation of rounding1833 labialism1869 labialization1869 obscuring1873 raising1874 unrounding1874 reduction1885 delabialization1907 r-colour1935 centralization1939 vowel-laxing1977 1939 Language 15 32 Centralization and partial unrounding of EMnE [= Early Modern English] u to [ɜ] had undoubtedly occurred in many dialects by c1550. 1962 Amer. Speech 37 169 A third distinctive characteristic of Ocracoke pronunciation..is the centralization of the onsets of the diphthongal allophones of /i/ and /e/. 2015 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 81 89 Other differences between men and women have been described for Koasati..but degree of vowel centralization is not one of them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1797 |
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