central
a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
• Syn:
telephone exchange, exchange
• Hypernyms:
workplace, work
• Hyponyms:
centrex, switchboard, patchboard, plugboard
• Part Holonyms:
telephone system, phone system
1. serving as an essential component (Freq. 11)
- a cardinal rule
- the central cause of the problem
- an example that was fundamental to the argument
- computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure
• Syn:
cardinal, fundamental, key, primal
• Similar to:
important, of import
• Derivationally related forms:
center
2. in or near a center or constituting a center;
the inner area (Freq. 7)
- a central position
• Ant:
peripheral
• Similar to:
amidship, bicentric, bifocal, center, halfway,
middle, midway, centered, centric, centrical, focal,
median, medial, middlemost, midmost, nuclear
• Derivationally related forms:
center, centrality
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