ADJECTIVE | all | central, cardinal, fundamental, key, primal | serving as an essential component |
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all | central | in or near a center or constituting a center | |
NOUN | artifact | central, telephone exchange, exchange | a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication |
Sounds | seh'ntrahl | |
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Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... |
Meaning | Serving as an essential component. | |
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Example | "the central cause of the problem" | |
Synonyms | cardinal, fundamental, key, primal | |
Broader | important, of import | Of great significance / significance or value |
Spanish | básico, central, elemental, esencial, fundamental, primordial | |
Catalan | bàsic, central, clau, elemental, essencial, fonamental, primordial | |
Nouns | center | the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience |
center | the object upon which interest and attention focuses |
Meaning | In or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area. | |
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Example | "a central position" | |
Narrower | amidship | Located in the middle part of a ship or aircraft |
bicentric | Having two centers | |
bifocal | Having two foci | |
center, halfway, middle, midway | Equally distant from the extremes / extremes | |
centered | Being or placed in the center | |
centric, centrical | Having or situated at or near a center | |
focal | Having or localized centrally at a focus | |
median, medial | relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle | |
middlemost, midmost | In the exact middle | |
nuclear | constituting or like a nucleus | |
See also | inner | Located or occurring within or closer to a center |
Opposite | peripheral | On or near an edge or constituting / constituting an outer boundary |
Spanish | central | |
Catalan | central | |
Nouns | center | a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure |
center | an area that is approximately central within some larger / larger region | |
central | a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication | |
centrality | the property of being central | |
Adverbs | centrally | in or near / near or toward a center or according to a central role or function |
Meaning | A workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication. | |
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Synonyms | telephone exchange, exchange | |
Part of | telephone system, phone system | A communication system that transmits sound between distant points |
Narrower | centrex | (CENTRal EXchange) a kind of telephone exchange |
switchboard, patchboard, plugboard | telephone central where circuits are completed with patchcords | |
Broader | workplace, work | A place where work is done |
Spanish | central, central telefónica | |
Catalan | central | |
Adjectives | central | in or near a center or constituting a center |
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