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centripetal::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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centripetal::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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centripetal force.
Examples of centripetal
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The centrifugal force is just as real and important as the centripetal one.
From the newscientist.com
The whole ostensible plan behind empire was long-term, and centripetal.
From the theatlantic.com
The apparent motion of the star is an apparent centripetal acceleration.
From the en.wikipedia.org
For a satellite in orbit around a planet, the centripetal force is supplied by gravity.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A reactive centrifugal force is the reactionforce to a centripetal force.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The concentric rings of orderly submission gesture to an all-powerful centripetal force.
From the guardian.co.uk
So she is free to imagine the force of domestic disaster as centrifugal, not centripetal.
From the time.com
As the wave is reflected at the peripheral veins, it runs back in a centripetal fashion.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Within his party Richard Nixon represents the only centripetal force.
From the time.com
- Tending to move toward a center; "centripetal force"
- Tending to unify
- Of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system; "sensory neurons"
- Centripetal force is a force that makes a body follow a curved path: it is always directed orthogonal to the velocity of the body, toward the instantaneous center of curvature of the path.
- Directed, or developing from the outside towards the centre or axis.
- A force that makes a moving body move in a circular manner towards the centre.
- Adj. 4. Botany Developing or progressing inward toward the center or axis, as in the head of a sunflower, in which the oldest flowers are near the edge and the youngest flowers are in the center. -- AHTD
- Proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis, from the Latin centr- + petere, to go, to seek, from the Greek petesthai to fly, from which "feather" is also derived.
- (20) -- tending toward the center
