central: signification et définitions

Situated at, in, or near the center: the central states.

Forming the center.

Having dominant or controlling power or influence: the company's central office.

Of basic importance; essential or principal: "Performance, including technological invention and artistic creation, will become central to education at all levels” ( Frederick Turner).

Easily reached from various points: a central location for the new store.

Of or constituting a single source controlling all components of a system: central air conditioning.

Anatomy Of, relating to, or originating from the nervous system.

Anatomy Relating to a centrum.

Linguistics Articulated in the middle of the oral cavity; neither front nor back. Used of vowels, as the u in cut.

Holding to a moderate ideological position between two extremes.

A telephone exchange.

An operator at a telephone exchange.

An office or agency at the center of a group of related activities that serves to control and coordinate them: traffic central.