central
Plural: centrals
Noun
- A main telephone exchange or a central office.
- a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
- center
Adjective Satellite
- serving as an essential component
- "the central cause of the problem"
Adjective
- Situated at, in, or forming the center; crucially important.
- in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area
- "a central position"
Adj
- Being in the centre.
- Having or containing the centre of something.
- Being very important, or key to something.
- Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.
- Belong or relating to the center of an algebraic structure.
- Of an element of an algebraic structure: which commutes with all other elements under multiplication
- Belong or relating to the center of an algebraic structure.
- Of a unital algebra over a field: whose center is exactly equal to the image of the base field
Examples
- He aimed to connect his letters to the CENTRAL hub of bonus squares on the Scrabble board.
- Placing a CENTRAL word on the board can open up many strategic possibilities in Words With Friends.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin centrālis, from centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron); by surface analysis, centre + -al.
Synonyms
cardinal, exchange, fundamental, key, primal, telephone exchange, dominant, main, principal
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 9
central: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcentral: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
central: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary