Definition of centrifugals Centrifugals

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What does centrifugals mean?

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Adjective
centrifugal - tending to move away from a center; "centrifugal force"
		centripetal tending to move toward a center; "centripetal force"
		outward-developing away from an axis, as in a flower cluster in which the oldest flowers are in the center, the youngest near the edge
centrifugal - conveying information to the muscles from the CNS; "motor nerves"
		motor
centrifugal - tending away from centralization, as of authority; "the division of Europe into warring blocs produces ever-increasing centrifugal stress"

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centrifugal (Adjective)
Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
centrifugal (Adjective)
Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
centrifugal (Adjective)
Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.

centrifugal (a.)
Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
centrifugal (a.)
Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
centrifugal (a.)
Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
centrifugal (n.)
A centrifugal machine.

centrifugal
sen-trif′ū-gal, adj. relating to the force directed towards the centre of curvature constantly required to keep a body moving in a curve instead of in its natural straight line: (bot.) applied to an inflorescence when the development proceeds from the apex towards the base of the axis or leaf, as opposed to centripetal, when it is from the base upwards towards the apex.—n. Cen′trifuge, a centrifugal machine. [L. centrum, and fug-ĕre, to flee from.]