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Centrifugal Common

Origin: Latin suffix -al

Centrifugal has 5 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

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

"The factory manager adjusted the settings on the centrifugal before it began spinning to split the thick syrup into pure sugar crystals and dark molasses."

Adjective
1

tending to move away from a center

"centrifugal force"

2

tending away from centralization, as of authority

"the division of Europe into warring blocs produces ever-increasing centrifugal stress"

3

conveying information to the muscles from the CNS

"motor nerves"

4

Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.

"The centrifugal force pushed the water outward as it spun rapidly in the washing machine drum."

Example Sentences
"centrifugal force" adjective
"the division of Europe into warring blocs produces ever-increasing centrifugal stress" adjective
"motor nerves" adjective
Related Terms
Antonyms
centripetal
Rhyming Words
gal agal mgal egal x gal regal ergal jugal argal dogal algal legal kogal segal vagal tagal pygal zygal yigal fergal
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