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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun central has 1 sense

• central(n = noun.artifact) exchange, telephone exchange - a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication; Array
has particulars: centrex, patchboard, plugboard, switchboard
is a part of phone system, telephone system
is a kind of work, workplace
Derived form adjective central₂

Adjective central has 2 senses

• central(s = adj.all) cardinal, fundamental, key, primal - 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"
Derived forms noun center₆, noun center₅

• central(a = adj.all) Array - in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area; "a central position"
Derived forms noun center₄, noun center₁, noun central₁, noun centrality₁
Antonym: peripheral

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THESAURUS

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

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Middle

N middle, midst, mediety, mean, medium, middle term, center &c, mid-course, mezzo termine, juste milieu, halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos, nucleus, nucleolus, equidistance, bisection, half distance, equator, diaphragm, midriff, intermediate, middle, medial, mesial, mean, mid, median, average, middlemost, midmost, mediate, intermediate, equidistant, central, mediterranean, equatorial, homocentric, in the middle, midway, halfway, midships, amidships, in medias res.

Centrality

N centrality, centricalness, center, middle, focus, core, kernel, nucleus, nucleolus, heart, pole axis, bull's eye, nave, navel, umbilicus, backbone, marrow, pith, vertebra, vertebral column, hotbed, concentration, centralization, symmetry, center of gravity, center of pressure, center of percussion, center of oscillation, center of buoyancy, metacenter, central, centrical, middle, azygous, axial, focal, umbilical, concentric, middlemost, rachidian, spinal, vertebral, middle, midst, centrally.

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