centrifugal

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin centrum (“center”) + fugiō (“to flee”) +‎ -al, probably coined by Christiaan Huygens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛnˈtɹɪf(j)əɡəl/, /sɛntɹəˈfjuːɡəl/

Adjective

centrifugal (not comparable)

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.

Antonyms

• centripetal

Derived terms

• centrifugal force

Translations

tending, or causing, to recede from the center

• Bulgarian: центробежен (centrobežen)
• Czech: odstředivý m
• Dutch: centrifugaal (nl), middelpuntvliedend (nl)
• Finnish: keskipakoinen (fi), sentrifugaalinen (fi)
• French: centrifuge (fr) m or f
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• Gujarati: કેન્દ્રત્યાગી (kendratyāgī)
• Irish: lártheifeach
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sentrifugal

  Nynorsk: sentrifugal (nn)

expanding first at the summit, and later at the base

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having the radicle turned towards the sides of the fruit

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Noun

centrifugal (plural centrifugals)

1. A rotating machine used to separate massecuite into sugar crystals and molasses.
   • 1993, James C. P. Chen, ‎Chung Chi Chou, Cane Sugar Handbook

     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.

   • 2011, H. Panda, The Complete Book on Sugarcane Processing and By-Products of Molasses

     Modern practice favours warming the massecuite in pug mills, placed above the centrifugals.

References

• “centrifugal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• centrifugal Oxford Dictionaries on-line, Oxford University Press, 2012.