central
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: algebra
anatomy
mathematics
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-der.
Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron)der.
Latin centrum
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin centrālisbor.
English central
Borrowed from Latin centrālis, from centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron); by surface analysis, centre + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more central
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most central
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: centralmost
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: centremost
pos: adj
tags: UK
superlative
form: centermost
pos: adj
tags: US
superlative
form: centrals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Being in the centre.
pos: adj
examples: Egyption Thebes; / Tyre by the margin of the sounding waves; / Palmyra, central in the Desert, fell; / And the Arts died by which they had been raised.
The plantoid[…]will have a central stem containing a reservoir of liquid plastic of a sort that can be frozen by ultraviolet light. Half a dozen cylindrical roots will branch off this stem, and the plastic will flow through these from the reservoir to the tip. As in a real root, the tip will be a specialised structure.
The network had no central ownership or controller; and it did only one thing – transfer data packets from one edge of the network to their destination at another edge.
gloss: Having or containing the centre of something.
pos: adj
gloss: Being very important, or key to something.
pos: adj
examples: Cleverley was a central figure as England took the lead inside three minutes. He saw his shot handled by Moldovan defender Simion Bulgaru and Lampard drilled home the penalty in trademark fashion.
Passengers crowd in the main concourse at London Euston on January 28 2017, before boarding West Coast Main Line services. The urgent need to relieve congestion and improve reliability on the WCML remains central in the recently published Full Business Case for HS2.
gloss: Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.
pos: adj
gloss: Belong or relating to the center of an algebraic structure.
pos: adj
gloss: Belong or relating to the center of an algebraic structure.
pos: adj
gloss: center
pos: noun
tags: US
especially
Related words: center
Derived words: acentral
anterocentral
Australian Central Daylight Time
Australian Central Standard Time
Ballarat Central
bicentral
Bundaberg Central
Canberra Central
caudocentral
central adiposity
Central African Federation
Central Africa Time
Central American bushmaster
Central Anatolia
central angle
central bank
Central Bedfordshire
Central Bohemian Region
Central Bridge
central business district
central canal
central casting
central chimpanzee
central city
Central City
Central Coast
Central Coaster
Central Colo
central committee
central cord syndrome
central core disease
Central Daylight Time
Central Desert
central determiner
central dogma
central door locking
Central Elgin
Central European
Central European Midsummer Time
Central Europe Time
central excise
Central Falls
central fire
Central Frontenac
Central Goldfields
central government
central heating
Central Highlands
Central Huron
Centralia
centralisation
centralise
centralish
centrality
centralize
Central Kootenay
central limit theorem
Central Limit Theorem
central location test
central locking
centrally
Central Macdonald
Central Mangrove
Central Manitoulin
Central Min
central moment
centralmost
central nervous system
centralness
Central Okanagan
Central Otago
central pain syndrome
Central Papua
central pawn
Central Plain
central planning
Central Plateau
central processing unit
Central Provinces
central reservation
central retinal artery
central sensitisation
central simple algebra
central spindle
Central Standard Time Zone
central sulcus
Central Tablelands
central tendency
Central Tilba
Central Time Zone
central vacuum
Central Village
Central West
Cockburn Central
costocentral
craniocentral
decentral
dorsocentral
epicentral
Everard Central
excentral
frontocentral
Gladstone Central
Guinzadan Central
hypercentral
intercentral
Isis Central
Kinglake Central
Logan Central
Mashonaland Central
measure of central tendency
mesiocentral
metacentral
midcentral
mid-central
monocentral
multicentral
neurocentral
noncentral
northcentral
orthocentral
Pahina Central
paracentral
parietocentral
pericentral
pluricentral
Poblacion Central
polycentral
postcentral
posteriocentral
posterocentral
proximocentral
quasicentral
San Nicolas Central
Sapphire Central
semicentral
South Central
southcentral
Springfield Central
subcentral
supracentral
temporocentral
Thuringowa Central
tricentral
uncentral
unicentral
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