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Gravitational vs Centrifugal - What's the difference?

gravitational | centrifugal |

As adjectives the difference between gravitational and centrifugal

is that gravitational is pertaining to, or caused by, gravity or gravitation while centrifugal is tending, or causing, to recede from the center.

gravitational

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Pertaining to, or caused by, gravity or gravitation.
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    • Synonyms

    * gravitic

    Derived terms

    * gravitational collapse * gravitational field * gravitational force * gravitational interaction * gravitational lens * gravitational radiation * gravitational redshift * gravitational potential

    centrifugal

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia centrifugal) (-)
  • 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.

    • Antonyms

    * centripetal

    Derived terms

    * centrifugal force

    References

    * * centrifugal] ''[http://oxforddictionaries.com/ Oxford Dictionaries on-line, Oxford University Press, 2012.