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centripetal 1. acting, moving, or tending to move towards a centre 2. of, concerned with, or operated by centripetal force 3. Botany (esp of certain inflorescences) developing from the outside towards the centre 4. Physiol another word for afferent centripetal [‚sen′trip·əd·əl] (mechanics) Acting or moving in a direction toward 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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| [1] Geographic position as the starting point of literary interpretation is especially interesting during times of geographical change -- when borders shift across people, when people shift across borders, when borders move centripetally to create a large political formation out of smaller ones, when borders move centrifugally to create smaller formations out of a larger one. Yet it is typically those societies on the fringes of the centripetally nationalistic West - those of the Caribbean, pre-Soviet Russia, Africa, Latin America - which offer up the truly centrifugal, multilingual novel. But wa are thereby drawn centripetally toward the world of others, a world that existed before us and independently of our knowledge and consent. |
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