Associations to the word «Centrifugal»

CENTRIFUGAL, adjective. Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.

CENTRIFUGAL, adjective. (botany) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.

CENTRIFUGAL, adjective. (botany) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.

CENTRIFUGAL FORCE, noun. In everyday understanding, centrifugal force is the effect that tends to move an object away from the center of a circle it is rotating about (a consequence of inertia).

CENTRIFUGAL FORCE, noun. (physics): In a rotating reference frame, the apparent force that seems to push all bodies away from the centre of rotation of the frame and is a consequence of the body's mass and the frame's angular speed. It works in conjunction with the Coriolis force to give correct motion.

CENTRIFUGAL FORCE, noun. (physics): In circular motion, the 'reactive' centrifugal force is a real force applied by the accelerating body that is equal and opposite to the centripetal force that is acting on the accelerating body.

CENTRIFUGAL FORCE, noun. (physics): In polar coordinates, the apparent radial force that acts away from the center and is a consequence of the body's angular speed around the origin.

CENTRIFUGAL FORCES, noun. Plural of centrifugal force

CENTRIFUGAL, adjective. Tending to move away from a center; "centrifugal force".

CENTRIFUGAL, adjective. Tending away from centralization, as of authority; "the division of Europe into warring blocs produces ever-increasing centrifugal stress".

CENTRIFUGAL, adjective. Conveying information to the muscles from the CNS; "motor nerves".