8 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Central \Cen"tral\, adjective [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. {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["a]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. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Central \Cen"tral\, ||Centrale \Cen*tra"le\, noun [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. From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: central adjective 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}, {fundamental}, {key}, {primal}] 2: in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area; "a central position"; "central heating and air conditioning" [ant: {peripheral}] 3: used in the description of a place that in the middle of another place; "the people of Central and Northern Europe"; "country in central Africa" 4: centrally located and easy to reach; "the central city has good bus service"; "the shop has a central location" noun: a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication [syn: {telephone exchange}, {exchange}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 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 From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: 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 From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]: Central, AK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Alaska Population (2000): 134 Housing Units (2000): 169 Land area (2000): 247.950847 sq. miles (642.189718 sq. km) Water area (2000): 1.496112 sq. miles (3.874913 sq. km) Total area (2000): 249.446959 sq. miles (646.064631 sq. km) FIPS code: 11690 Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02 Location: 65.533461 N, 144.695650 W ZIP Codes (1990): 99730 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Central, AK Central From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]: Central, SC -- U.S. town in South Carolina Population (2000): 3522 Housing Units (2000): 1832 Land area (2000): 2.406803 sq. miles (6.233590 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.406803 sq. miles (6.233590 sq. km) FIPS code: 13015 Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45 Location: 34.723781 N, 82.779754 W ZIP Codes (1990): 29630 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Central, SC Central From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]: Central, TN -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Tennessee Population (2000): 2717 Housing Units (2000): 1259 Land area (2000): 4.289392 sq. miles (11.109474 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000516 sq. miles (0.001337 sq. km) Total area (2000): 4.289908 sq. miles (11.110811 sq. km) FIPS code: 12460 Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47 Location: 36.323090 N, 82.299684 W ZIP Codes (1990): Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Central, TN Central

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