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 |
Central Intelligence Machinery
CIM | the United Kingdom's central unit for the tasking and coordination and funding of intelligence and security agencies |
| 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 |
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 |
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 |
| Central African Republic franc | the basic unit of money in the Central African Republic |
| central scotoma | a scotoma that involves the fixation point |
Central Time
Central Standard Time
CST | standard time in the th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the th meridian, used in the central United States |
| central | in or near a center or constituting a center, the inner area, a central position |
| west-central | of a region of the United States usually including Colorado, Nevada, Utah |
| east-central | of a region of the United States generally including Kentucky, West Virginia |
cardinal
central
fundamental
key
primal | serving as an essential component, a cardinal rule, the central cause of the problem, an example that was fundamental to the argument, computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure |
| north-central | situated in the northern part of a centrally located area in some geographical region, the north-central part of Russia |
| south-central | situated in the southern part of a centrally located area in some geographical region, south-central London |
| north-central | being in or of a region of the United States generally including states of the upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes region lying north of the Ohio River and the southern boundaries of Kansas and Missouri and between the western boundary of Pennsylvania and the eastern boundaries of Montana and Wyoming and Colorado |
| south-central | being in or of a region of the United States including the states of the lower Mississippi valley and east of the Rio Grande |
| Central American | of or relating to or characteristic of Central America or its people or languages |