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Centrifugal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Tending to recede from the center. The centrifugal force of a body, is that force by which all bodies moving round another body in a curve, tend to fly off from the axis of their motion, in a tangent to the periphery of the curve.

Centrifugal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.

2. Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.

3. Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.

Centrifugal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A centrifugal machine.