Central Region

British

noun

a former local government region in central Scotland, formed in 1975 from Clackmannanshire, most of Stirlingshire, and parts of Perthshire, West Lothian, Fife, and Kinross-shire; in 1996 it was replaced by the council areas of Stirling, Clackmannanshire, and Falkirk

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As the name suggests, a stellar bar is a straight, elongated feature that stretches across the central region of a spiral galaxy.

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This project represents one of the most sensitive radio investigations ever carried out to search for pulsars in the turbulent central region of the Milky Way.

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Among water-only companies, customers of Affinity Water's central region will see a 13% increase.

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Its central region spans about 500,000 light years, similar in size to the halo surrounding the Milky Way.

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Beneath Earth's molten outer core is a dense central region -- the inner core, a compact sphere made of an iron and light-element alloy squeezed by more than 3.3 million atmospheres and heated to temperatures comparable to the Sun's surface.

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