central

1. A workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication (synset 102998465)
   is a type of: work, workplace - a place where work is done
   subtypes:

   • centrex - (CENTRal EXchange) a kind of telephone exchange
   • patchboard, plugboard, switchboard - telephone central where circuits are completed with patchcords
   is a part of: phone system, telephone system - a communication system that transmits sound between distant points
   same as: exchange, telephone exchange

1. Serving as an essential component (synset 301280207)
   "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"
   similar to: important, of import - of great significance or value
   same as: cardinal, fundamental, key, primal
2. In or near a center or constituting a center;
   The inner area (synset 300330729)
   "a central position"
   similar to:

   • amidship - located in the middle part of a ship or aircraft
   • bicentric - having two centers
   • bifocal - having two foci
   • center, halfway, middle, midway - equally distant from the extremes
   • centered - being or placed in the center
   • centric, centrical - having or situated at or near a center
   • focal - having or localized centrally at a focus
   • medial, median - relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
   • middlemost, midmost - being in the exact middle
   • nuclear - constituting or like a nucleus

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