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ning to the parts near the center; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points. Central force (Math.), a force acting upon a body towards or away from a fixed or movable center. -- Center sun (Astron.), a name given to a hypothetical body about which Mädler supposed the solar system together with all the sta…

The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.

The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.

The state of being central; tendency towards a center. Meantime there is a great centrality, a centripetence equal to the centrifugence. R. W. Emerson.

The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city.

t; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control. [To] centralize the power of government. Bancroft.

In a central manner or situation.

The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized. "The decentralization of France." J. P. Peters.

To prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); -- esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs.

Arising from the centrum of a vertebra. Owen.

Out of the center.

Between centers. Intercentral nerves (Physiol.), those nerves which transmit impulses between nerve centers, as opposed to peripheral fibers, which convey impulses between peripheral parts and nerve centers.

Having many, or several, centers; as, a multicentral cell. Multicental development (Biol.), growth, or development, from several centers. According as the insubordination to a single center is more or less pronounced, the resultant organism will be more or less irregular in form and may even discontinuous.…

Between the neural arch and the centrum of a vertebra; as, the neurocentral suture. Huxley.

Nearly central; not quite central.

Having a single center of growth. Unicentral development, that form of development which takes place primarily around a single central point, as in the lowest of unicellular organisms.

Away from the axis or central line; eccentric. Balfour.

when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus.

plans, etc.; -- followed by to or with. Affiliated societies, societies connected with a central society, or with each other.

Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia.