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S vs Centrifugal - What's the difference?

s | centrifugal |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective centrifugal is

tending, or causing, to recede from the center.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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.