A former local government region in central Scotland, created in 1975 mainly from Stirlingshire, abolished in 1996 and divided into 3 council areas: Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling (which were districts within the region).

Being in the centre. / Having or containing the centre of something. / Being very important, or key to something. / (anatomy) Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.

(especially US) centre

The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole

(anatomy) The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or tarsus in most vertebrates. In the human tarsus it is represented by the navicular.

A device used to centralize a piece of equipment. / (mathematics) (of an element in a group) The set of elements of the same group which commute with the element. See also normalizer.

The state of being central. / A tendency to remain at, or move towards the centre. / (mathematics) Any of various measures of the relative importance of a vertex in a graph.

To move things physically towards the centre; to consolidate or concentrate / To move power to a single, central authority

(location) In a central manner or situation; at, to, through or from the centre.

plural of centralizer