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"central" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often mid (3 letters).
Definitions
In the middle; main
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin centrālis, from centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron); by surface analysis, centre + -al.
Used in a sentence
“Egyption Thebes; / Tyre by the margin of the sounding waves; / Palmyra, central in the Desert, fell; / And the Arts died by which they had been raised.”
“The network had no central ownership or controller; and it did only one thing – transfer data packets from one edge of the network to their destination at another edge.”
“Cleverley was a central figure as England took the lead inside three minutes. He saw his shot handled by Moldovan defender Simion Bulgaru and Lampard drilled home the penalty in trademark fashion.”
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