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- public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Mount Pleasant, Mich., U.S. The university is composed of the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, Technology, Education, Health and Human Services, and Graduate Studies. The graduate school offers master's degree programs in ...
- Central Oklahoma, University of
- public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. It consists of the colleges of Arts, Media, and Design; Business Administration; Education; Liberal Arts; and Mathematics and Science. The graduate college offers master's degree programs in most fields of ...
- Central Pacific Basin
- major submarine basin of the central part of the north Pacific Ocean, between the Line Islands to the east and the Marshall Islands to the west. It occupies a large area of the north Pacific and extends westward to a ...
- Central Pacific Railroad
- American railroad company founded in 1861 by a group of California merchants known later as the "Big Four" (Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker); they are best remembered for having built part of the first American ...
- Central Park
- largest and most important public park in Manhattan, New York City. It occupies an area of 840 acres (340 hectares) and extends between 59th and 110th streets (about 2.5 miles [4 km]) and between Fifth and Eighth avenues (about 0.5 ...
- Central Powers
- World War I coalition that consisted primarily of the German Empire and Austria-Hungary, the "central" European states that were at war from August 1914 against France and Britain on the Western Front and against Russia on the Eastern Front. The ...
- central processing unit
- principal part of any digital computer system, generally composed of the main memory, control unit, and arithmetic-logic unit. It constitutes the physical heart of the entire computer system; to it is linked various peripheral equipment, including input/output devices and auxiliary ...
- Central Region Plateau
- largest continuous tableland in Malawi. Its area of 9,000 square miles (23,310 square km) is bordered by the Chimaliro Hills and Viphya Mountains on the north, the Great Rift Valley on the east, the Dwangwa River on the west, and ...
- Central Russian Upland
- large upland area of the Russian Plain, in the central part of European Russia. It stretches in a north-south direction from the Oka River to the Donets River and the Donets Ridge. The upland has a total north-south length of ...
- Central Siberian Plateau
- vast upland area, north-central Siberia, Russia. The plateau occupies an area of 600,000 square miles (1,500,000 square km). It is situated in Krasnoyarsk kray (region), Sakha, and in Irkutsk oblast (province). It is bounded ...
- Central Sudanic languages
- a group of more than 30 languages that form a subbranch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. The Central Sudanic languages are spoken in the Central African Republic, Chad, The Sudan, Uganda, and Congo (Kinshasa). Although this division is not universally ...
- Central Treaty Organization
- mutual security organization dating from 1955 to 1979 and composed of Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom. Until March 1959 the organization was known as the Middle East Treaty Organization, included Iraq, and had its headquarters in Baghdad.
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