1. moving or tending to move away from a centre
   Collocations: Centrifugal is used with these nouns:

   • force
   • tendency
   Word Originearly 18th cent.: from modern Latin centrifugus, from Latin centrum (from Greek kentron ‘sharp point, stationary point of a pair of compasses’, related to kentein ‘to prick’) + -fugus ‘fleeing’ (from fugere ‘flee’).

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