control center
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3.7
- noun
- /kənˈtroʊl ˈsɛntər/
:
centro de control
- The flight operations were all managed from the main control center, where the team monitored the aircraft in real-time.
- local disease control centers
So getting a chance to design space walks or space tools, working in the Control Center, everything that we did was to help people get to space.
- So getting a chance to design space walks or space tools, working in the Control Center, everything that we did was to help people get to space.
- So the air traffic Control Center has a radar that basically sends out signals that bounce off of airplanes and come back.
- So once you were once you got into the building, the launch Control Center, where where Tim goes.
- There's a whole base in I think it's Montana where the command and Control Center is.
- Thus making it basically an air traffic Control Center for all non discussed vehicles on this planet.
Examples
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It is all managed from our launch Control Center with old computers, but with a great team of people.
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You can call the control center and have them abort the mission.
Fiction book (2001) -
On the first trip, I was taken to the Control Center with the officer in charge.
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Up this way to the control center.
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It's the mission control center.
Academic text (2002) -
I'm almost at the control center.
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And the power plant is here, beside the control center.
Fiction book (1990) -
Hawk will be going up the ramp alone into the control center.
Fiction book (1990) -
Korben is at the control center screens trying to find Leeloo.
Fiction book (1997) -
The first half dozen flights had been run remotely from the control center underground at Armstrong Spaceport.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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3.4
A room where people watch and control machines like cameras or power equipment
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4.6
A place where people direct and control important activities and information
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3.3
A central system that watches and controls many operations in real time
How Central
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3.0
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3.7
- Jargon
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5.3
- US
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3.2
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3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a central place or interface for control' is directly and compositionally built from 'control' (ability to direct) + 'center' (a place providing a specific service). This noun–noun compound follows a common and cross-linguistic pattern, so an average B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Control center: The noun control center comes from the image of a room full of screens where people watch events and give orders; control means 'to watch and direct' and center is the place where this happens. So it means a place that watches and guides a group of activities.