Word of the Day: Catachrestical
2. The central part or point of anything; the middle.
3. An eye on the under side of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.
The umbilical cord.
Middle Roget’s Thesaurus §68
N. middle, midst, mediety|, mean, medium, middle term, center, mid-course, mezzo termine, juste milieu, halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos, nucleus, nucleolus, equidistance, bisection, half distance, equator, diaphragm, midriff, intermediate
Adj. middle, medial, mesial, mean, mid, median, average, middlemost, midmost, mediate, intermediate, equidistant, central, mediterranean, equatorial, homocentric
Centrality Roget’s Thesaurus §222
N. centrality, centricalness, center, # middle, focus, core, kernel, nucleus, nucleolus, heart, pole axis, bull's eye, nave, navel, umbilicus, backbone, marrow, pith, vertebra, vertebral column, hotbed, concentration, centralization, symmetry, center of gravity, center of pressure, center of percussion, center of oscillation, center of buoyancy &c, metacenter
Adj. central, centrical, middle, azygous, axial, focal, umbilical, concentric, middlemost, rachidian, spinal, vertebral
Adv. middle, midst, centrally