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Central

adjective

Serving as an essential component. Synonyms: cardinal, fundamental, key, primal. "The central cause of the problem" , "An example that was fundamental to the argument" , "Computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"

In or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area.

noun

A workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication. Synonyms: exchange, telephone exchange.

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"Central" Quotes from Famous Books

... by 30-35 slightly spirally-curving or regular radiating lamellae, which meet in a central point or overlap on a latitudinal axial line, and are divided by rectangular or outwardly convex and upwardly oblique dissepiments, which become, occasionally, indistinct or obsolete near the centre, thus not assuming the usual characteristic of Cyathophyllum, ...

— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt

... formed cylindrical batteries. In some of these batteries the plates are directly in contact, and in others they were separated by leaves of pasteboard, the thickness of which varied from that of the thinnest paper to 0.001 meter. The batteries were placed in the central portion of a very powerful magnetic field, and after they have been taken out they formed perfectly regular permanent magnets. The supporting power of these magnets was the greater the nearer its constituent plates were to each other. In a battery of 100 plates, touching ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 • Various

... At the Central Bank Building, two striking teamsters accosted Billy and took him away with them. Saxon waited on the corner, and when he returned, three quarters of an hour later, she ...

— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London

... and there between the plaster and timber houses as the river wound beneath its bridges, and beyond all the vast masses of the Priory straight in front of him to the South of the town, the church in front with its tall central tower, a huddle of convent roofs behind, all white against the rich meadows that lay ...

— The King's Achievement • Robert Hugh Benson

... of Germany and the nature of her ambitions have been revealed. A purely Balkan conflict did not appear to be an issue on which to stake the fortunes of the British Empire. We were not even bound to intervene in a trial of strength between the Central Empires and Russia and France, for on 1 August Italy decided that the action of the Central Empires was aggressive and that therefore she was not required by the Triple Alliance to participate. There had in the past been a tendency on the part of France to use ...

— A Short History of the Great War • A.F. Pollard

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