- 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.
- Anatomy, Zoology.
- of or relating to the central nervous system.
- of or relating to the centrum of a vertebra.
- (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.
- (of a force) directed to or from a fixed point.
- (formerly)
- a main telephone exchange.
- a telephone operator at such an exchange.
- (in Spanish America and the Philippines) a mill for crushing cane into raw sugar.
- a region in central Scotland. 1,016 sq. mi. (2,631 sq. km).
- in, at, of, from, containing, or forming the centre of something
- main, principal, or chief; most important
- of or relating to the central nervous system
- of or relating to the centrum of a vertebra
- of, relating to, or denoting a vowel articulated with the tongue held in an intermediate position halfway between the positions for back and front vowels, as for the a of English soda
- (of a force) directed from or towards a point
- used to describe a place where a specified thing, quality, etc is to be found in abundance
