0 in, at, from, or near the centre or most important part of something: --
Community involvement is central to our plan.
a central role
2 controlled or organized in one main place: --
central planning
the US central bank
central authorities
3 an area of central Scotland that was one of nine local government regions until 1996: --
4 in, at, from, or near the center: --
He grew up in central Illinois.
Whatever, chronological age should be a central theoretical concern of social gerontology.
Because of its relationship to the debate construed as the central debate for linguistic anthropology, their work is also construed as crucially theoretical.
The summary tables and figures convey all of the central empirical results of the experiments.
We also agree with the authors that what subjects are told about a task can be of central importance, even when deception is not involved.
But the central question surrounding bower birds was the purpose of the bowers.
He had stressed the central question of co-operation and willingness to accept a common responsibility.
In brief, during early neuroproliferative and migratory phases, monoamines play central roles.
His central support also recovered, aided by the party's need to have some provincial governments fit for display.
