centralization
Centralization or centralization stands for:
- in the economy the combination of similar or similar tasks centralization (economics)
- in algebra the search for a subset with certain properties, see centralizer
- political endeavor to concentrate state competences with a central supreme authority, see centralism
- Concentrating spatial planning processes, economic and social factors in large cities and towns, the opposite of regionalization. see centralization (spatial planning)
- in developmental biology unifying summary of sub-functions, see centralization (biology)
- in medicine, adaptation processes to maintain the blood flow to vital organs, see shock (medicine) #Pathophysiology
- the shift of the tongue position when articulating vowels, see centralization (vowel)
See also:
- Centrality (degree of concentration of structural or controlling elements of a system)
- Centering (creating symmetry)
- Centrism / centrist (disambiguation)
- Centering (geodesy and mine surveying)
- Center (disambiguation)
- Decentralization (politics)
