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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cen·tral a.  Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining 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 stars in the Milky Way, to be revolving. A point near Alcyone in the Pleiades was supposed to possess characteristics of the position of such a body.