central chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes | black-faced chimpanzees of central Africa, closely related to eastern chimpanzees |
central telephone exchange exchange | a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication |
central heating | a heating system in which air or water is heated at a central furnace and sent through the building via vents or pipes and radiators |
central processing unit CPU C.P.U. central processor processor mainframe | (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing, the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached |
headquarters central office main office home office home base | (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise, many companies have their headquarters in New York |
fissure of Rolando Rolando's fissure central sulcus sulcus centralis | a brain fissure extending upward on the lateral surface of both hemispheres, separates the frontal and parietal lobes |
central artery of the retina arteria centralis retinae | a branch of the ophthalmic artery, enters the eyeball with the optic nerve |
central veins of liver venae centrales hepatis | terminal branches of the hepatic veins that lie in the hepatic lobules and receive blood from the liver sinusoids |
central vein of retina vena centrales retinae | vein formed by the union of the retinal veins, accompanies central arteries of the retina in the optic nerve |
central vein of suprarenal gland vena centralis glandulae suprarenalis | a single draining vein, on the right it empties into the inferior vena cava, on the left it empties into the left renal vein |
centrosome central body | small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus, contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules |
central nervous system CNS systema nervosum centrale | the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord |
central gyrus | either of two gyri on either side of the central sulcus |
central vision | vision using the fovea and parafovea, the middle part of the visual field |
Thai Siamese Central Thai | a branch of the Tai languages |
South-Central Dravidian | a Dravidian language spoken primarily in south central India |
Central Dravidian | a Dravidian language spoken primarily in central India |
Central Intelligence Agency CIA | an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest, headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and National Security Council |
Central Powers | in World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies |
Central America | the nations of Central America collectively |
board meeting committee meeting | a meeting for administrative purposes |
blue ribbon commission blue ribbon committee | an independent and exclusive commission of nonpartisan statesmen and experts formed to investigate some important governmental issue |
committee commission | a special group delegated to consider some matter, a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours - Milton Berle |
committee citizens committee | a selfonstituted organization to promote something |
select committee | a parliamentary committee appointed for some special purpose |
vigilance committee | a volunteer committee to maintain order where an efficient legal system does not exist |
welcoming committee | a committee to welcome new residents to a community |
standing committee | a permanent committee |
Ways and Means Committee | a permanent committee of the United States House of Representatives that makes recommendations to the US House on all bills that would raise revenue |
steering committee | a committee to arrange the order of business for some larger (legislative) body |
ethics committee ethics panel | a committee appointed to consider ethical issues |
finance committee | a committee appointed to consider financial issues |
political action committee PAC | committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates |
Central Intelligence Machinery CIM | the United Kingdom's central unit for the tasking and coordination and funding of intelligence and security agencies |
Security Intelligence Review Committee SIRC | an agency of the Canadian government that oversees the activities of the Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada and has the power to intrude on the privacy of suspected terrorists or spies |
central bank | a government monetary authority that issues currency and regulates the supply of credit and holds the reserves of other banks and sells new issues of securities for the government |
European Central Bank | the central bank of those members of the European Union who share a common currency, The European Central Bank is Europe's equivalent of the Federal Reserve |
Committee for State Security KGB Soviet KGB | formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia |
city center city centre central city | the central part of a city |
Central American country Central American nation | any one of the countries occupying Central America, these countries (except for Belize and Costa Rica) are characterized by low per capita income and unstable governments |
Central African Republic Central Africa | a landlocked country in central Africa, formerly under French control, became independent in |
Bangui capital of Central Africa | the capital and largest city of the Central African Republic |
Central America | the isthmus joining North America and South America, extends from the southern border of Mexico to the northern border of Colombia |
Central Park | a large park in Manhattan |
Massif Central | a mountainous plateau in southern France that covers almost one sixth of the country |
Central American | a native or inhabitant of Central America |
committee member | a member of a committee |
Director of Central Intelligence DCI | the head of the United States Intelligence Community and director of the Central Intelligence Agency |
free central placentation | where ovules develop on a central column in a compound ovary lacking septa or with septa at base only |
Central American strap fern narrow-leaved strap fern Campyloneurum augustifolium | fern with shorter and narrower leaves than Florida strap fern, Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Argentina |