Definition of centripetal Centripetal
cen•trip•e•tal
We found 12 definitions of centripetal from 5 different sources.
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What does centripetal mean?
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| centripetal - tending to move toward a center; "centripetal force" | ||
| centrifugal tending to move away from a center; "centrifugal force" | ||
| inward-developing toward an axis, as in a sunflower; the oldest flowers are near the edge, the youngest in the center | ||
| centripetal - of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system; "sensory neurons" | ||
| receptive, sensory | ||
| afferent of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS; "afferent nerves"; "afferent impulses" | ||
| centripetal - tending to unify | ||
| unifying | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- centripetal (a.)
Tending, or causing, to approach the center. - centripetal (a.)
Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit. - centripetal (a.)
Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos. - centripetal (a.)
Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.
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centripetal
Directed toward the center.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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centripetal
sen-trip′et-al, adj. of a force impelling a body towards some point as a centre. [L. centrum, and pet-ĕre, to seek.]
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