CENTRIFUGAL FORCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does centrifugal force mean? 

• CENTRIFUGAL FORCE (noun)
  The noun CENTRIFUGAL FORCE has 1 sense:

1. the outward force on a body moving in a curved path around another body

  Familiarity information: CENTRIFUGAL FORCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENTRIFUGAL FORCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The outward force on a body moving in a curved path around another body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("centrifugal force" is a kind of...):

force ((physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity)

Antonym:

centripetal force (the inward force on a body moving in a curved path around another body)

 Context examples 

Process of using a rotating machine to generate centrifugal force to separate substances of different densities, remove moisture, or simulate gravitational effects.

(Centrifugation, NCI Thesaurus)

This was done by dumping them into a spinning receptacle that went at a rate of a few thousand revolutions a minute, tearing the water from the clothes by centrifugal force.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)