CENTRIFUGATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does centrifugate mean? 

• CENTRIFUGATE (verb)
  The verb CENTRIFUGATE has 1 sense:

1. rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids

  Familiarity information: CENTRIFUGATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENTRIFUGATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they centrifugate    ... he / she / it centrifugates   
Past simple: centrifugated   
Past participle: centrifugated   
-ing form: centrifugating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

centrifugate; centrifuge

Hypernyms (to "centrifugate" is one way to...):

spin (stream in jets, of liquids)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "centrifugate"):

ultracentrifuge (subject to the action of an ultracentrifuge)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

centrifuge (an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension)