(India) The department concerned with tax on goods manufactured or produced.

(historical) The countries of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) and Bulgaria, all of whom fought against the Allies in World War I.

a vacuum cleaner built into the fabric of a building, with a central motor and dirt bag and distributed points where a hose and appliances may be plugged in

A landlocked area of continental Asia comprising Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. In the USSR and the modern Russia, the area is called Middle Asia (Средняя Азия).

the time of day in the time zone that encompasses many countries in Western Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and North Africa.

The testing of a product by consumers in an artificial setting.

The central area of a city in which there is a concentration of certain retail and business activities, especially in older cities with rail transportation.

plural of central simple algebra

(algebra, ring theory) A finite-dimensional associative algebra over some field K that is a simple algebra and whose centre is exactly K.

The region of Brazil comprising the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and the Distrito Federal.