CENTRIFUGAL

a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.

2.
a.

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

3.
a.

Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos. Centrifugal force (Mech.), a force whose direction is from a center.

4.
n.

A centrifugal machine.