Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being central.
- noun A tendency to be or remain at the center.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being central.
- noun In the Hegelian logic, first-ness; native character; the total character which belongs to an object regardless of anything else.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being central; tendency towards a center.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
central . - noun A tendency to remain at, or move towards the
centre . - noun mathematics Any of various
measures of the relative importance of avertex in agraph .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being central
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Examples
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The case for Iran’s centrality is not, in fact, even remotely plausible.
Matthew Yglesias » Israeli Officials Think Road to Peace Runs Through Teheran 2009
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The case for Iran’s centrality is not, in fact, even remotely plausible.
Matthew Yglesias » Israeli Officials Think Road to Peace Runs Through Teheran 2009
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Indeed, the case for Iran’s centrality is convincing.
Matthew Yglesias » Israeli Officials Think Road to Peace Runs Through Teheran 2009
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The case for Iran’s centrality is not, in fact, even remotely plausible.
Matthew Yglesias » Israeli Officials Think Road to Peace Runs Through Teheran 2009
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For instance, while religion certainly plays a bigger role in politics and public life in the United States than it does in some of the more liberal western European states, the difference is not so large as to warrant calling the centrality of religion in American politics "theocratic."
Archive 2004-12-01 Chris 2004
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For instance, while religion certainly plays a bigger role in politics and public life in the United States than it does in some of the more liberal western European states, the difference is not so large as to warrant calling the centrality of religion in American politics "theocratic."
Linguistic Restraint: The Case of "Fascist Theocracy" Chris 2004
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First, we cannot enhance our own security if we place in jeopardy what is most precious to us, namely the centrality of human rights in our daily lives and in global affairs.
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But a rather different picture of the structure of frameworks is also possible, one in which the notion of centrality is a matter of degree and in which no single set of beliefs or principles serves to individuate a framework.
Relativism Swoyer, Chris 2003
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Medical and social research has now shown that these four happiness choices - accountability, flexibility, giving, and "centrality" (living passions) - are highly correlated to happiness and good health.
Rick Foster: Your Grandmother and Mine, Happiness, and Health 2009
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A week ago, Mr. Scajola sent an open letter to Mr. Marchionne requesting a meeting and highlighting the "centrality" of Fiat's Italian plants to Italy's economy.
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