CENTRALLY

[sen-truhl]

cen·tral

1[sen-truhl]
adjective
1.
of or forming the center: the central hut in the village.
2.
in, at, or near the center: a central position.
3.
constituting something from which other related things proceed or upon which they depend: a central office.
4.
principal; chief; dominant: the play's central character.
5.
Anatomy, Zoology.
a.
of or pertaining to the central nervous system.
b.
of or pertaining to the centrum of a vertebra.
EXPAND
6.
Phonetics. (of a speech sound) produced with the tongue articulating neither expressly forward nor in the back part of the mouth, as any of the sounds of lull.
7.
Physics. (of a force) directed to or from a fixed point.
COLLAPSE
noun
8.
(formerly)
a.
a main telephone exchange.
b.
a telephone operator at such an exchange.

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Centrally is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1640–50; < Latin centrālis, equivalent to centr(um) center + -ālis -al1

cen·tral·ly, adverb


4. major, main, key, leading, primary.

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central (ˈsɛntrəl)
 
adj
1.  in, at, of, from, containing, or forming the centre of something: the central street in a city; the central material of a golf ball
2.  main, principal, or chief; most important: the central cause of a problem
3.  a.  of or relating to the central nervous system
 b.  of or relating to the centrum of a vertebra
4.  of, relating to, or denoting a vowel articulated with the tongue held in an intermediate position halfway between the positions for back and front vowels, as for the a of English soda
5.  (of a force) directed from or towards a point
6.  informal (immediately postpositive) used to describe a place where a specified thing, quality, etc is to be found in abundance: nostalgia central
 
'centrally
 
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