Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Moving or directed away from a center or axis.
- adj. Operated by means of centrifugal force.
- adj. Physiology Transmitting nerve impulses away from the central nervous system; efferent.
- adj. Botany Developing or progressing outward from a center or axis, as in a flower cluster in which the oldest flowers are in the center and the youngest flowers are near the edge.
- adj. Tending or directed away from centralization, as of authority: "The division of Europe into two warring blocs, each ultimately dependent on a superpower patron, is subject to ever-increasing centrifugal stress” ( Scott Sullivan).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
- adj. Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
- adj. Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
- adj.
- adj. Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
- adj. Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
- n. A centrifugal machine.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Flying off or proceeding from a center; radiating or sent outward from a focus or central point: opposed to centripetal: as, centrifugal force or energy; centrifugal rays or spokes.
- Operating by radial action; producing effects by centrifugal force: as, a centrifugal filter, pump, or machine. (See phrases below.)
- In psychology, moving from the brain to the periphery.
- n. plural Sugars made in a centrifugal machine.
- n. A drum in a centrifugal machine.
- Obtained (as milk or cream) by the *centrifugal method (which see).
- n. A trade-name for any machine which employs centrifugal force to separate a liquid from a solid or to separate liquids of different specific gravities.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. conveying information to the muscles from the CNS
- adj. tending to move away from a center
- adj. tending away from centralization, as of authority
Etymologies
Examples
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And this yielding of the centripetal power to that which we call centrifugal can only take place in a condition of human society where the idea of communism has been accepted as the ideal and, in some effective measure, realized in fact.
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Since the time of David many boys have swung pebbles by a string, or sling, and felt the pull of what we call a centrifugal (center-fleeing) force.
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They provide external agents for what they call the centrifugal force.
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A hinged side plate provides quick access to the adjustable six-pin centrifugal brake.
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Bet you'd never see the word centrifugal in a horse racing chat.
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Sure you could; you could measure the so-called centrifugal force.
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Therefore, not only in the atomic world is heat a repulsive motion, but equally in the solar world, which is but an atomic world on a large scale, the same principle prevails, and the effect of radiant heat is essentially a repulsive, that is, a centrifugal motion, as it is always directed from the central body, the sun.
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When any motion takes place, this is evident, and this tendency is called centrifugal force.
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There are few mechanical principles more widely known than that of so-called centrifugal force; an action which, though still a puzzle to students, has long been thoroughly understood.
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We have learned _the direction_ and _the measure_ of the deflection, which a revolving body continually suffers, and its resistance to which is termed centrifugal force.
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