<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>of or forming the center: the central hut in the village.</li><li>in, at, or near the center: a central position.</li><li>constituting something from which other related things proceed or upon which they depend: a central office.</li><li>principal; chief; dominant: the play's central character.</li><li>Anatomy, Zoology: of or relating to the central nervous system.</li><li>of or relating to the centrum of a vertebra.</li><li>Phonetics: (of a speech sound) produced with the tongue articulating neither expressly forward nor in the back part of the mouth, as any of the sounds of lull.</li><li>Physics: (of a force) directed to or from a fixed point.</li></ul>