Centrally

cen·tral  (sntrl)

adj.

1. Situated at, in, or near the center: the central states.

2. Forming the center.

3. Having dominant or controlling power or influence: the company's central office.

4. Of basic importance; essential or principal: "Performance, including technological invention and artistic creation, will become central to education at all levels" (Frederick Turner).

5. Easily reached from various points: a central location for the new store.

6. Of or constituting a single source controlling all components of a system: central air conditioning.

7. Anatomy

a. Of, relating to, or originating from the nervous system.

b. Relating to a centrum.

8. Linguistics Articulated in the middle of the oral cavity; neither front nor back. Used of vowels, as the u in cut.

9. Holding to a moderate ideological position between two extremes.

n.

1.

a. A telephone exchange.

b. An operator at a telephone exchange.

2. An office or agency at the center of a group of related activities that serves to control and coordinate them: traffic central.

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[Latin centrlis, from centrum, center; see center.]

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central·ly adv.

Thesaurus

Adv.

1.

centrally - in or near or toward a center or according to a central role or function; "The theater is centrally located" peripherally - in or at or near a periphery or according to a peripheral role or function or relationship