centrifugal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   tending to move away from a center

   Centrifugal force.

2. 2
   adj

   tending away from centralization, as of authority

   The division of Europe into warring blocs produces ever-increasing centrifugal stress.

3. 3
   noun

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

   Where the sequencing of the centrifugals is accomplished by the triggering of a function in the process cycle, a buffer zone (nonproductive time) has to be inserted in the cycle time prior to this action.

4. 4
   adj

   conveying information to the muscles from the CNS

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

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