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1. Serving as an essential component
   "the central cause of the problem";
   - cardinal, fundamental, key, primal
    
2. In or near a centre or constituting a centre; the inner area
   "a central position"

1. A workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
   - telephone exchange, exchange

Derived forms: centrals

See also: amidship, bicentric, bifocal, center [US], centered [US], centre [Brit, Cdn], centred [Brit, Cdn], centric, centrical, focal, halfway, important, medial, median, middle, middlemost, midmost, midway, nuclear, of import

Type of: work, workplace

Antonym: peripheral

Part of: phone system, telephone system

Encyclopedia: Central, Hong Kong Central, California Central, Indiana Central, Louisiana Central, Liverpool Central, Bahia Central, AK Central Central, AZ Central, Arizona Central, Alaska Central, TN Central, South Carolina Central, Tennessee Central, Yolo County, California Central, Utah Central, SC Central, Minneapolis, MN Central, Minneapolis Central, Minneapolis, Minnesota Central, New South Wales Central, New Mexico