centrifugal

Meaning

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
2. (not-comparable) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
3. (not-comparable) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.

Noun

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

Synonyms

motor

centrifugation

eccentric

outward

schismatic

schismatical

sedimentation

decenter

offcenter

centrifugate

anticentripetal

Translations

centrifuge

centrífugo

centrífugo

centrífug

zentrifugal

centrifugo

middelpuntvliedend

centrifugaal

Fliehkraft…

φυγόκεντρος

centrifugale

Zentrifugal…

centrifuga

merkezkaç

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɛnˈtɹɪf.(j)ə.ɡl̩/

Etymology

From New Latin centrifugālis, coined by Christiaan Huygens from Latin centrum (“center”) + fugiō (“to flee”) + -al.