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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cen•tral1 /ˈsɛntrəl/USA pronunciation adj. - [usually: before a noun] of, in, at, or near the center: Our home is in a central region of town.
- [before a noun] being or making up something from which all other related things proceed: He reported to the central administration.
- most important;
principal;
main;
chief: [before a noun]:He had a central position in the department.[ be + ~ + to + obj]:Einstein's discoveries were central to modern physics for decades.
cen•tral•ly, adv.: The apartment is centrally located. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cen•tral1 (sen′trəl),USA pronunciation adj. - of or forming the center:the central hut in the village.
- in, at, or near the center:a central position.
- constituting something from which other related things proceed or upon which they depend:a central office.
- principal;
chief;
dominant:the play's central character. - Zoology[Anat., Zool.]
- Anatomyof or pertaining to the central nervous system.
- Anatomyof or pertaining to the centrum of a vertebra.
- Phonetics(of a speech sound) produced with the tongue articulating neither expressly forward nor in the back part of the mouth, as any of the sounds of lull.
- Physics(of a force) directed to or from a fixed point.
n. - Telecommunications(formerly)
- a main telephone exchange.
- a telephone operator at such an exchange.
- Latin centrālis, equivalent. to centr(um) center + -ālis -al1
- 1640–50
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged major, main, key, leading, primary.
cen•tral2 (sen träl′; Sp. sen träl′),USA pronunciation n., pl. -trals, Sp. -tra•les (-trä′les).USA pronunciation - Foreign Terms(in Spanish America and the Philippines) a mill for crushing cane into raw sugar.
- American Spanish, special use of Spanish central central1
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- Place Namesa region in central Scotland. 269,281. 1016 sq. mi. (2631 sq. km).
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: central /ˈsɛntrəl/ adj - in, at, of, from, containing, or forming the centre of something: the central street in a city, the central material of a golf ball
- main, principal, or chief; most important: the central cause of a problem
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