Centrifugal vs. Centripetal

Centrifugaladjective

Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.

Centrifugaladjective

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

Centrifugaladjective

(botany) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.

Centrifugaladjective

Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.

Centrifugaladjective

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

Centrifugalnoun

A centrifugal machine.

Centrifugaladjective

tending to move away from a center;

Centrifugaladjective

tending away from centralization, as of authority;

Centrifugaladjective

conveying information to the muscles from the CNS;

Centrifugaladjective

moving or tending to move away from a centre.

Centripetaladjective

Directed or moving towards a centre.

Centripetaladjective

Of, relating to, or operated by centripetal force.

Centripetaladjective

Directed towards the central nervous system; afferent.

Centripetaladjective

Tending, or causing, to approach the center.

Centripetaladjective

Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit.

Centripetaladjective

Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.

Centripetaladjective

tending to move toward a center;

Centripetaladjective

tending to unify

Centripetaladjective

of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system;

Centripetaladjective

moving or tending to move towards a centre.