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What does centrifugal mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word centrifugal? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
  2. (botany) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
  3. (botany) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
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The centrifugal force of the roll causes the fins to unfold for aerodynamic stability in flight.
Only the Dyson, which relies on centrifugal force to spin the dust out of the airstream, maintains constant suction.
Terrestrial centrifugal grinding mills and density-separation jigs can be adapted for this work.
Proteins will sediment through a solution in a centrifugal field dependent upon their mass.
Colliding with shorter broken lines along the way, each element seems to gather energy and speed in a display of centrifugal force.
The three-way balance between centrifugal force, Coriolos force, and the pressure-gradient force is called the gradient flow.

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