centripetal vs centrifugal
Definitions
adjective
- of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system
- tending to unify
- tending to move toward a center
Examples
They can exercise a subtle, unseen influence, somewhat like a magnetic field or centripetal force, compelling us inexorably back on ourselves.
Rome itself; particularly in the Flavian time; and supplied or fed a new centripetalism there which righted things in the next half-cycle.
Nature and Law compel it: whose direction now is towards grand centripetalism, where before they had ordained heterogeneity and the scattering and aloofness of peoples.
Definitions
adjective
- tending away from centralization, as of authority
- tending to move away from a center
- conveying information to the muscles from the CNS
Examples
These are the ones with a fixed wheel and a heavy flywheel with loads of centrifugal force.
Mineral process of hematite in the early time often adopted gravity separation, and it mainly included jig, centrifugal separator, spiral chute, spiral concentrator, shaking table and so on.
When the sealed ends are cold and the blood has clotted, place the pipette on the centrifuge, clean end downward; counterpoise and centrifugalise thoroughly.
