Usually means: Force moving away from center.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word centrifugal:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. centrifugal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. centrifugal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. centrifugal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. centrifugal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. centrifugal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Centrifugal, centrifugal: Wordnik
  7. centrifugal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. centrifugal: Wiktionary
  9. centrifugal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. centrifugal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. centrifugal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. centrifugal: Dictionary.com
  13. centrifugal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Centrifugal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. centrifugal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. centrifugal: Rhymezone
  17. Centrifugal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. centrifugal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. centrifugal: Free Dictionary
  20. centrifugal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. centrifugal: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. centrifugal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. centrifugal: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See centrifugally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (centrifugal)

adjective:  Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
adjective:  (botany) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
adjective:  (botany) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
noun:  A rotating machine used to separate massecuite into sugar crystals and molasses.

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