CENTRIFUGALLY
Etymology
Adverb
centrifugally (comparative more centrifugally, superlative most centrifugally)
Away from a centre or axis.
Using centrifugal force.
In a centrifuge.
Source: Wiktionary
CENTRIFUGAL
Cen*trif"u*gal, a. Etym: [L. centrum center + fugere to flee.]
1. Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
2. (Bot.)
(a) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower
cluster.
(b) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some
embryos. Centrifugal force (Mech.), a force whose direction is from a
center.
Note: When a body moves in a circle with uniform velocity, a force
must act on the body to keep it in the circle without change of
velocity. The direction of this force is towards the center of the
circle. If this force is applied by means of a string to the body,
the string will be in a state of tension. To a person holding the
other end of the string, this tension will appear to be directed
toward the body as if the body had a tendency to move away from the
center of the circle which it is describing. Hence this latter force
is often called centrifugal force. The force which really acts on the
body being directed towards the center of the circle is called
centripetal force, and in some popular treatises the centripetal and
centrifugal forces are described as opposing and balancing each
other. But they are merely the different aspects of the same stress.
Clerk Maxwell. Centrifugal impression (Physiol.), an impression
(motor) sent from a nerve center outwards to a muscle or muscles by
which motion is produced.
– Centrifugal machine, A machine for expelling water or other
fluids from moist substances, or for separating liquids of different
densities by centrifugal action; a whirling table.
– Centrifugal pump, a machine in which water or other fluid is
lifted and discharged through a pipe by the energy imparted by a
wheel or blades revolving in a fixed case. Some of the largest and
most powerful pumps are of this kind.
Cen*trif"u*gal, n.
Definition: A centrifugal machine.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition