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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. serving as an essential component;
- Example: "a cardinal rule"
- Example: "the central cause of the problem"
- Example: "an example that was fundamental to the argument"
- Example: "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;
- Example: "a central position"



The 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


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]