central

6 definitions found

central - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Central \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; equidistant or equally accessible from
     certain points.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Central force (Math.), a force acting upon a body towards
        or away from a fixed or movable center.
  
     Center sun (Astron.), a name given to a hypothetical body
        about which M[aum]dler supposed the solar system together
        with all the stars in the Milky Way, to be revolving. A
        point near Alcyone in the Pleiades was supposed to possess
        characteristics of the position of such a body.
        [1913 Webster] Central

  Central \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.
     [1913 Webster]

central - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  central
      adj 1: 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" [syn: cardinal,
             central, fundamental, key, primal]
      2: in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area;
         "a central position" [ant: peripheral]
      n 1: a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility
           where lines from telephones can be connected together to
           permit communication [syn: central, telephone exchange,
           exchange]

central - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Central, AK (CDP, FIPS 11690)
    Location: 65.55583 N, 144.85782 W
    Population (1990): 52 (78 housing units)
    Area: 140.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 99730
  Central, IN
    Zip code(s): 47110
  Central, NM (village, FIPS 13550)
    Location: 32.77530 N, 108.15424 W
    Population (1990): 1835 (700 housing units)
    Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 88026
  Central, SC (town, FIPS 13015)
    Location: 34.72335 N, 82.78297 W
    Population (1990): 2438 (1282 housing units)
    Area: 4.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 29630
  Central, TN (CDP, FIPS 12460)
    Location: 36.32663 N, 82.29545 W
    Population (1990): 2635 (1130 housing units)
    Area: 11.6 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
  Central, UT
    Zip code(s): 84722

central - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  CENTRAL. Relating to the centre, or placed in the centre; as, the central 
  courts of the United States, are those located in the city of Washington, 
  whose jurisdiction extends over the whole country. These are, first, the 
  Senate of the United States, when organized to try impeachments; secondly, 
  the Supreme Court of the United States. 
       2. The government of the United States is the central government. 
  
  

central - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  232 Moby Thesaurus words for "central":
     PBX operator, 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, middle-of-the-road, middlemost, 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, 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