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centripetal

[ UK /sˈɛntɹa‍ɪptə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system
    sensory neurons
  2. tending to unify
  3. tending to move toward a center
    centripetal force

How To Use centripetal In A Sentence

  • 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. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
  • 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. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
  • Donald Horowitz, one of the intellectual fathers of of centripetalism, explains why: Matthew Yglesias » Alternative Voting
  • [3] If the periodic times are in the sesquiplicate ratio of the radii, and therefore the velocities reciprocally in the subduplicate ratio of the radii, the centripetal forces will be in the duplicate ratio of the radii inversely; and the converse. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
  • The pattern of differentiation could thus be visualized as a centripetal wave moving inward from a ring of already differentiated cells.
  • The rest of the station's ‘gravity’ is merely centripetal force from its rotation.
  • Momentum is mass times velocity, so both factors influence the size of centripetal force.
  • In future blogs, I'll be addressing a number of centripetal forces -- ways that families maintain themselves and their members under the circumstances of modern life, and not to worry, my answers may not be what you'd expect from an old professor of psychology, grandfather of 8, ritualist extraordinaire. Marshall P. Duke: Prime Time for Families
  • I'm going to make a connection between centripetal acceleration and perceived gravity The way that you perceive gravity.
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