different between centrifugal vs centripital

English

Etymology

From Latin centrum (“center”) + fugi? (“to flee”) +? -al, probably coined by Christiaan Huygens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?n?t??f(j)???l/, /s?nt???fju???l/

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

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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• centrifugal Oxford Dictionaries on-line, Oxford University Press, 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

From German zentrifugal

Adjective

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

1. centrifugal

Declension