centrifugal

From New Latin centrifugālis, coined by Christiaan Huygens from Latin centrum (“center”) + fugiō (“to flee”) +‎ -al.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɛnˈtɹɪf.(j)ə.ɡl̩/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛn.tɹɪˈfjuː.ɡl̩/, (rare) /sɛnˈtɹɪf.jʊ.ɡl̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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.

• centripetal

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.

• “centrifugal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• centrifugal Oxford Dictionaries on-line, Oxford University Press, 2012.

Borrowed from German zentrifugal. By surface analysis, centrifug +‎ -al.

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

1. centrifugal