Centripetal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Moving or directed toward a center or axis.
  • adj. Operated by means of centripetal force.
  • adj. Physiology Transmitting nerve impulses toward the central nervous system; afferent.
  • adj. 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.
  • adj. Tending or directed toward centralization: the centripetal effects of a homogeneous population.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. directed or moving towards a centre
  • adj. of, relating to, or operated by centripetal force
  • adj. directed towards the central nervous system; afferent
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Tending, or causing, to approach the center.
  • adj.
  • adj. Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit.
  • adj. Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos.
  • adj. Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Tending or moving toward the center: opposed to centrifugal.
  • Progressing by changes from the exterior of an object to its center: as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. tending to unify
  • adj. tending to move toward a center
  • adj. of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system
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