CENTRIC Synonyms

• a small group of indispensable persons or things

• an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality

• the center of an object

• the central part of the Earth

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill

• the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

• (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories

• the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place

• a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil

• remove the core or center from

• of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis

• having crucial relevance

• of the greatest importance

• basic and fundamental

• being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc

• defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established

• anything indispensable

• absolutely necessary; vitally necessary

• of the greatest importance

• of or relating to a focus

• having or localized centrally at a focus

• any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business

• the lowest tone of a harmonic series

• serving as an essential component

• being or involving basic facts or principles

• far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something

• metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated

• United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled `The Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843)

• something crucial for explaining

• pitch of the voice

• any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music

• a kilogram of a narcotic drug

• a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple

• a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida

• (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court

• a list of answers to a test

• a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations

• a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access

• mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)

• the central building block at the top of an arch or vault

• a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed

• serving as an essential component

• identify as in botany or biology, for example

• provide with a key

• vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key

• regulate the musical pitch of

• harmonize with or adjust to

• going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way

• the activity of leading

• thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing

• indicating the most important performer or role

• greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement

• having the leading position or higher score in a contest

• (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence

• any very large body of (salt) water

• a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage

• most important element

• of force; of the greatest possible intensity

• being of crucial importance

• most frequent or common

• having superior power and influence

• of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary

• a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen

• one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing

• (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it

• coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit

• not derived from or reducible to something else; basic

• most important element

• of or being the essential or basic part

• the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated

• the educator who has executive authority for a school

• an actor who plays a principal role

• capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

• (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement

• the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account

• most important element

• having a quality that thrusts itself into attention

• conspicuous in position or importance

• having or situated at or near a center