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centrifugal 1. acting, moving, or tending to move away from a centre 2. of, concerned with, or operated by centrifugal force 3. Botany (esp of certain inflorescences) developing outwards from a centre 4. Physiol another word for efferent 5. any device that uses centrifugal force for its action 6. the rotating perforated drum in a centrifuge centrifugal [‚sen′trif·i·gəl] (mechanics) Acting or moving in a direction away from the axis of rotation or the center of a circle along which a body is moving. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| And I, the long time intimate of John Barleycorn, knew just what he promised me--maggots of fancy, dreams of power, forgetfulness, anything and everything save whirling washers, revolving mangles, humming centrifugal wringers, and fancy starch and interminable processions of duck trousers moving in steam under my flying iron. This motion, faithful to the laws of mechanics, would have been accelerated with the diminution of its volume; and a moment would have arrived when the centrifugal force would have overpowered the centripetal, which causes the molecules all to tend toward the center. Under the centripetal force, the base of the projectile tended toward the moon; but the centrifugal still prevailed; and it was probable that its rectilineal course would be changed to a curve of some sort, the nature of which they could not at present determine. |
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