Centrifugal vs Centrifuge - What's the difference?
centrifugal | centrifuge |
Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
(botany) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
(botany) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
A device in which a mixture of denser and lighter materials (normally dispersed in a liquid) is separated by being spun about a central axis at high speed.
(figuratively) An apparatus in which humans are spun to simulate acceleration in an aircraft or spacecraft.
To rotate something in a centrifuge in order to separate its constituents
As an adjective centrifugal
is tending, or causing, to recede from the center.As a noun centrifuge is
a device in which a mixture of denser and lighter materials (normally dispersed in a liquid) is separated by being spun about a central axis at high speed.As a verb centrifuge is
to rotate something in a centrifuge in order to separate its constituents.centrifugal
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(wikipedia centrifugal) (-)Antonyms
* centripetalDerived terms
* centrifugal forceReferences
* *centrifugal] ''[http://oxforddictionaries.com/ Oxford Dictionaries on-line, Oxford University Press, 2012.