central
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛntɹ(ə)l/
The English word “central” has 7 meanings listed here.
adjective
- 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.
- Of an element of an algebraic structure: which commutes with all other elements under multiplication
- Of a unital algebra over a field: whose center is exactly equal to the image of the base field
noun
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin centrālis, from centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron); by surface analysis, centre + -al.
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