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centrifuge
English
Etymology
From French centrifuge from Latin centrum (“center”) + fugi? (“to flee”)
- centri- +? -fuge
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?s?nt???fju?d?/
Noun
centrifuge (plural centrifuges)
- A device in which a mixture of denser and lighter materials (normally dispersed in a liquid) is separated by being spun about a central axis at high speed.
- (figuratively) An apparatus in which humans are spun to simulate acceleration in an aircraft or spacecraft.
Derived terms
- gas centrifuge
- ultracentrifuge
Related terms
- centrifugal force
Translations
Verb
centrifuge (third-person singular simple present centrifuges, present participle centrifuging, simple past and past participle centrifuged)
- To rotate something in a centrifuge in order to separate its constituents
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French centrifuge.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?n.tri?fy?.??/
- Hyphenation: cen?tri?fu?ge
Noun
centrifuge f (plural centrifuges, diminutive centrifugetje n)
- (chiefly Netherlands) centrifuge
- Synonyms: centrifugaalmachine, droogzwierder
Related terms
- centrifugaal
- centrifugeren
French
Etymology
centre +? -fuge
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??.t?i.fy?/
Adjective
centrifuge (plural centrifuges)
- centrifugal
Further reading
- “centrifuge” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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hematocrit
English
Alternative forms
- haematocrit
Etymology
From hemato- (“blood”) +? Ancient Greek ?????? (krit?s, “judge, umpire”), literally “to separate blood”, coined by Swedish physiologist Magnus Blix in 1891.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h??mæt.?k.??t/
Noun
hematocrit (countable and uncountable, plural hematocrits)
- (medicine) The percentage (by volume) of packed red blood cells in a centrifuged sample of blood.
- Synonyms: Ht, (abbreviation) HCT
- (medicine, countable) A centrifuge used to analyze the relative amount of red blood cells and plasma in blood.
Translations
Further reading
- hematocrit at OneLook Dictionary Search
- hematocrit, haematocrit at Google Ngram Viewer
- hematocrit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- chromatite
Romanian
Etymology
From French hématocrite
Noun
hematocrit n (plural hematocrite)
- hematocrit
Declension
hematocrit From the web:
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