Being in the centre. / Having or containing the centre of something. / Being very important, or key to something. / (anatomy) Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.

(especially US) centre

(anatomy) The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or tarsus in most vertebrates. In the human tarsus it is represented by the navicular.

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).

A device used to centralize a piece of equipment. / (mathematics) (of an element in a group) The set of elements of the same group which commute with the element. See also normalizer.

The state of being central. / A tendency to remain at, or move towards the centre. / (mathematics) Any of various measures of the relative importance of a vertex in a graph.

To move things physically towards the centre; to consolidate or concentrate / To move power to a single, central authority

(location) In a central manner or situation; at, to, through or from the centre.

The state or quality of being central.

plural of centralizer