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).

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.

present participle of centralize

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of centralize

plural of centrality

A system that centralizes, especially an administration of some kind.

The state or quality of being central.

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.