control center

Operations nerve center

A control center is a facility where operations are monitored and directed—NASA's mission control center, a building's security control center.

The term extends to any central hub of coordination: The kitchen became the control center for Thanksgiving preparations.

In anatomy, the brain is often called the body's control center.

Related

dispatcher · switchboard · coordination · emergency response · oversee · cockpit · flight deck · monitor · regulate · signal box · telemetry · manage · fleet management · operators · guide · station · mainframe · screens

Categories
Opposites
centralization vs. distribution of command

control centerfield office

Remote organizational workplace

remote outpost · branch office · outpost · field station · satellite office

order vs. chaos in operations

control centerchaos

Complete disorder and confusion

anarchy · disarray · pandemonium · bedlam · free-for-all

spatial organization

control centerperiphery

Boundary or outer region

outpost · edge · frontier post · hinterland · margins

Family

center, control, controller, controlled, controlling, uncontrolled, controllable, remote control, controllability

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G