central

adj

1. Being in the centre.

   “Egyption Thebes; / Tyre by the margin of the sounding waves; / Palmyra, central in the Desert, fell; / And the Arts died by which they had been raised.”

   “The plantoid[…]will have a central stem containing a reservoir of liquid plastic of a sort that can be frozen by ultraviolet light. Half a dozen cylindrical roots will branch off this stem, and the plastic will flow through these from the reservoir to the tip. As in a real root, the tip will be a specialised structure.”

   “The network had no central ownership or controller; and it did only one thing – transfer data packets from one edge of the network to their destination at another edge.”

2. Having or containing the centre of something.
3. Being very important, or key to something.

   “Cleverley was a central figure as England took the lead inside three minutes. He saw his shot handled by Moldovan defender Simion Bulgaru and Lampard drilled home the penalty in trademark fashion.”

   “Passengers crowd in the main concourse at London Euston on January 28 2017, before boarding West Coast Main Line services. The urgent need to relieve congestion and improve reliability on the WCML remains central in the recently published Full Business Case for HS2.”

4. Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.
5. Belong or relating to the center of an algebraic structure.
6. Belong or relating to the center of an algebraic structure.
7. (not-comparable)Of or pertaining to the Central Powers.

   “On this score, then, it is quite clear that up to now neither the Entente nor the Central armies have been outmanœuvred, or indeed have invented a weapon of offence that has produced decisive results.”

noun

1. (US, especially)center

name

1. A former local government region in central Scotland, created in 1975 mainly from Stirlingshire, abolished in 1996 and divided into 3 council areas: Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling (which were districts within the region).
2. An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.

   “The best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central.”

   “Last month, L Brands Inc lingerie chain Victoria's Secrets chose to locate its first Hong Kong stores at the mall and the prime downtown district of Central.[…] British fashion brand Topshop will open a 14,000 sq ft store in Central in June, paying $516,000 a month in rent.”

   “Thousands of protesters block the main street leading to the financial area known as the Central district outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong on Sept. 28, 2014.”

   “For non-hikers, this tram, in operation since 1888, takes passengers from the bottom of Hong Kong Island’s Central neighborhood up 1,312 feet on Victoria Peak, the island’s highest mountain.”

   “The sale of The Center, a 73-storey building in Hong Kong’s bustling Central district, surpassed a transaction earlier this year, where a prime commercial lot — occupied by a multi-storey car park also in Central — was sold off for HK$23.28 billion by the government to Henderson Land, which is owned by the city’s second richest man, Lee Shau-kee.”

3. The Central Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Central London Railway.
4. A district of Rasht County, Gilan Province, Iran.
5. A barangay of Tarlac City, Tarlac, Philippines.