01 a. Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
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Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
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Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.(Bot.)
Phrases & compounds
Centrifugal force —
a force whose direction is from a center.
Centrifugal impression —
an impression (motor) sent from a nerve center outwards to a muscle or muscles by which motion is produced.
Centrifugal machine —
A machine for expelling water or other fluids from moist substances, or for separating liquids of different densities by centrifugal action; a whirling table.
Centrifugal pump —
a machine in which water or other fluid is lifted and discharged through a pipe by the energy imparted by a wheel or blades revolving in a fixed case. Some of the largest and most powerful pumps are of this kind.