| Central America |
an extension of the North American continent from the Mexican border to South America, comprising seven countries. |
| central city |
the city at about the center of a metropolitan area, as distinguished from suburbs and smaller towns. |
| centralism |
a system or principle of organization, esp. of government, in which power is assigned to a central authority. |
| centralization |
the act or process of drawing toward or consolidating at a common center. [2 definitions] |
| centralize |
to draw toward or consolidate at a common center. [3 definitions] |
| Central Park |
the first urban park in the U.S., developed in 1873, located in the Manhattan borough of New York City. |
| Central Powers |
a World War I alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary together with Turkey and Bulgaria. |
| central processing unit |
in computing, the part of a computer that interprets program commands and executes its instructions. |
| Central Standard Time |
the standard time used in the central region of the United States, six hours behind Greenwich time. |
| centre |
a spelling of "center" used in Canada and Britain. See "center" for more information. |
| centri- |
center. |
| -centric |
having a (specified) number or arrangement of centers. [2 definitions] |
| centric |
at or near the center. [2 definitions] |
| centrifugal |
moving or being directed outward from a center point or axis. [3 definitions] |
| centrifugal force |
a force that tends to pull a particle or body outward, away from the axis around which it rotates. (Cf. centripetal force.) |
| centrifugalize |
to centrifuge. |
| centrifuge |
a machine that uses centrifugal force to separate materials of different densities. [2 definitions] |
| centripetal |
forced or moving inward toward a center point or axis. [2 definitions] |
| centripetal force |
a force that tends to pull a particle or body toward the axis around which it rotates. (Cf. centrifugal force.) |
| centrist |
a person whose ideology lies near the center of the political spectrum; moderate. [2 definitions] |
| centroid |
the arithmetic mean of all points that form the boundary of a two- or three-dimensional object. |