centrifugal
Speech parts
1. centrifugal - Noun
2. centrifugal - Adjective
3. centrifugal - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
A centrifugal machine.
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Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading.
Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.
When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?' Answer: 'Everything on earth would fly into space from the centrifugal force of revolution.' That was my mood.
The Supreme Court is an institution far more dominated by centrifugal forces, pushing toward individuality and independence, than it is by centripetal forces pulling for hierarchical ordering and institutional unity.
This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.
Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.