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English adjective: central | |||
| 1. | central serving as an essential component | ||
| Samples | A cardinal rule. The central cause of the problem. An example that was fundamental to the argument. Computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure. | ||
| Synonyms | cardinal, fundamental, key, primal | ||
| Similar | important, of import | ||
| Antonyms | unimportant | ||
| 2. | central in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area | ||
| Samples | A central position. | ||
| Similar | amidship, bicentric, bifocal, center, centered, centric, centrical, focal, halfway, medial, median, middle, middlemost, midmost, midway, nuclear | ||
| Antonyms | peripheral | ||
English noun: central | |||
| 1. | central (artifact) a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication | ||
| Synonyms | exchange, telephone exchange | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | work, workplace | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | centrex, patchboard, plugboard, switchboard | ||
| Part meronym | phone system, telephone system | ||
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