Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A group of ganglion-cells closely connected with one another and acting together in the performance of some function, as the cerebral centers, psychical centers, respiratory or vasomotor centers.
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Examples
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The area is now largely encompassed by Pakistan's notorious North-West Frontier Province, nerve-center of the cross-border Taliban insurgency, with Peshawar as its regional capital.
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"This is necessary in order to avoid fly-by-night, reckless and excitable flexing of muscles and decisions that overlook certain fundamentals that could irreparably harm the nerve-center of our recovering economy."
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It may be time for another galvanizing "Pearl Harbor-type event"; one that will strike at the legislative nerve-center of American democracy.
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Once again, the target of Bush's assault on Padilla was habeas corpus, the ideological nerve-center of American jurisprudence
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FOUR The Arc 16 Experimental Station's nerve-center was four levels down from the Extraction Room, the kitchen, and Nigel's study.
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It whisked him to his destination, and ten seconds later he stepped out into the familiar bustle of the nerve-center of Deep Space Nine.
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It whisked him to his destination, and ten seconds later he stepped out into the familiar bustle of the nerve-center of Deep Space Nine.
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It whisked him to his destination, and ten seconds later he stepped out into the familiar bustle of the nerve-center of Deep Space Nine.
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It whisked him to his destination, and ten seconds later he stepped out into the familiar bustle of the nerve-center of Deep Space Nine.
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After all, this was the nerve-center of the fleet.
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