centrifugal

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɛnˈtɹɪf.(j)ə.ɡl̩/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛn.tɹɪˈfjuː.ɡl̩/, (rare) /sɛnˈtɹɪf.jʊ.ɡl̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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
• centrifugalise
• centrifugalism
• centrifugalize
• centrifugally
• cytocentrifugal
• magnetocentrifugal
• ultracentrifugal

 

Translations

tending, or causing, to recede from the center

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

  Bokmål: sentrifugal

  Nynorsk: sentrifugal (nn)

expanding first at the summit, and later at the base

having the radicle turned towards the sides of the fruit

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.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German zentrifugal. By surface analysis, centrifug +‎ -al.

Adjective

centrifugal m or n (feminine singular centrifugală, masculine plural centrifugali, feminine and neuter plural centrifugale)

1. centrifugal

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	centrifugal		centrifugală		centrifugali	centrifugale
	definite	centrifugalul		centrifugala		centrifugalii	centrifugalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	centrifugal		centrifugale		centrifugali	centrifugale
	definite	centrifugalului		centrifugalei		centrifugalilor	centrifugalelor