centrifugal
IPA: sˈɛntrɪfjugʌɫ
noun
- A rotating machine used to separate massecuite into sugar crystals and molasses.
adjective
- Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
- (botany) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
- (botany) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
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Examples of "centrifugal" in Sentences
- The centrifugal force acts on the motorbike.
- The centrifugal force will pull the string taut.
- It is due to the effect of the centrifugal force.
- The centrifugal force then pulls the string taut.
- The centrifugal force is the outward acting force.
- Likewise with the centrifugal force in the inertial path.
- One is the centrifugal and the other the centripetal force.
- It contains the centripetal force and the centrifugal force.
- Bet you'd never see the word centrifugal in a horse racing chat.
- The centrifugal force is caused to exist by the centripetal force.
- Sure you could; you could measure the so-called centrifugal force.
- It is in fact the most general manifestation of the centrifugal force.
- They provide external agents for what they call the centrifugal force.
- A hinged side plate provides quick access to the adjustable six-pin centrifugal brake.
- When any motion takes place, this is evident, and this tendency is called centrifugal force.
- Since the time of David many boys have swung pebbles by a string, or sling, and felt the pull of what we call a centrifugal (center-fleeing) force.
- And this yielding of the centripetal power to that which we call centrifugal can only take place in a condition of human society where the idea of communism has been accepted as the ideal and, in some effective measure, realized in fact.
- Therefore, not only in the atomic world is heat a repulsive motion, but equally in the solar world, which is but an atomic world on a large scale, the same principle prevails, and the effect of radiant heat is essentially a repulsive, that is, a centrifugal motion, as it is always directed from the central body, the sun.