centrifugal

Meanings

Plural: centrifugals

Adjective

• tending to move away from a center
  • "centrifugal force"

Adjective Satellite

• tending away from centralization, as of authority
  • "the division of Europe into warring blocs produces ever-increasing centrifugal stress"
• conveying information to the muscles from the CNS

Adj

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

Noun

• A rotating machine used to separate massecuite into sugar crystals and molasses.

Synonyms

motor

Antonyms

centripetal

Anagrams of centrifugal