Origin: Latin suffix -al
Centrifugal has 5 different meanings across 1 category:
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."
tending away from centralization, as of authority
"the division of Europe into warring blocs produces ever-increasing centrifugal stress"
Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
"The centrifugal force pushed the water outward as it spun rapidly in the washing machine drum."