Centrifugal

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  • adjective. Moving or directed away from a center or axis.
  • adjective. Operated by means of centrifugal force.
  • adjective. Transmitting nerve impulses away from the central nervous system; efferent.
  • adjective. 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.
  • adjective. Tending or directed away from centralization, as of authority.
  • 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.
  • noun. plural Sugars made in a centrifugal machine.
  • noun. A drum in a centrifugal machine.
  • Obtained (as milk or cream) by the *centrifugal method (which see).
  • noun. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A centrifugal machine.
  • adjective. Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
  • adjective. Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
  • adjective. a force whose direction is from a center.
  • adjective. an impression (motor) sent from a nerve center outwards to a muscle or muscles by which motion is produced.
  • adjective. A machine for expelling water or other fluids from moist substances, or for separating liquids of different densities by centrifugal action; a whirling table.
  • adjective. a machine in which water or other fluid is lifted and discharged through a pipe by the energy imparted by a wheel or blades revolving in a fixed case. Some of the largest and most powerful pumps are of this kind.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
  • adjective. Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
  • adjective. Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. conveying information to the muscles from the CNS
  • adjective. tending to move away from a center
  • adjective. tending away from centralization, as of authority
  • Word Usage
    "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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