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.