centrifugal

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Moving or directed away from a center or axis.
2. adj. Operated by means of centrifugal force.
3. adj. Physiology Transmitting nerve impulses away from the central nervous system; efferent.
4. adj. Botany Developing or progressing outward from a center or axis, as in a flower cluster in which the oldest flowers are in the center and the youngest flowers are near the edge.
5. adj. Tending or directed away from centralization, as of authority: "The division of Europe into two warring blocs, each ultimately dependent on a superpower patron, is subject to ever-increasing centrifugal stress” ( Scott Sullivan).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Flying off or proceeding from a center; radiating or sent outward from a focus or central point: opposed to centripetal: as, centrifugal force or energy; centrifugal rays or spokes.
2. Operating by radial action; producing effects by centrifugal force: as, a centrifugal filter, pump, or machine. (See phrases below.)
3. In psychology, moving from the brain to the periphery.
4. n. plural Sugars made in a centrifugal machine.
5. n. A drum in a centrifugal machine.
6. Obtained (as milk or cream) by the *centrifugal method (which see).
7. n. A trade-name for any machine which employs centrifugal force to separate a liquid from a solid or to separate liquids of different specific gravities. In all, the liquids to be separated, or the liquids and solids, are placed in a vessel which is rotated at a high speed, the lighter liquids being thrown off to the sides of the vessel where they overflow and escape, or the liquids mingled with the solids being thrown outward through perforations in the sides of the vessel. The cream-separator is an example of the first and the laundry extractor an example of the second method. Machines which are essentially centrifugal are given different names in different trades, as centrifugal extractor (or simply extractor), honey-extractor, cream-separator, centrifugal drier, hydro-extractor, Babcock's centrifugal or milk-tester. See drier,*extractor, *honey-extractor, *milk-tester (with cut), and separator.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
2. adj. Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
3. adj. Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
2. adj. Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
3. adj. Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
4. n. A centrifugal machine.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. conveying information to the muscles from the CNS
2. adj. tending to move away from a center
3. adj. tending away from centralization, as of authority