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Interior vs Central - What's the difference?

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Interior is a related term of central.


As adjectives the difference between interior and central

is that interior is within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner while central is being in the centre.

As a noun interior

is the inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.

interior

English

Alternative forms

* interiour (obsolete)

Adjective

(-)
  • Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.
    • the interior''' apartments of a house; the '''interior surface of a hollow ball
  • Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
    • the interior parts of a region or country

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * interior decoration * interior design * interior designer

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
  • The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.
    • ''Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior .
  • (mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.

    • Antonyms

    * (l)

    central

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being in the centre.
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  • Being the most important.
  • Having or containing the centre of something.
  • Being very important, or key to something.
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    Derived terms

    * central bank * central heating * central locking * centralisation * centralise * centrally * centralness