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centrifugal - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Adjective

centrifugal (not comparable)

• 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.

Noun

centrifugal (plural centrifugals)

• A rotating machine used to separate massecuite into sugar crystals and molasses.
  • ✤ Where the sequencing of the centrifugals is accomplished by the triggering of a function in the process cycle, a buffer zone (nonproductive time) has to be inserted in the cycle time prior to this action.¹
  • ✤ Modern practice favours warming the massecuite in pug mills, placed above the centrifugals.²

Etymology

From New Latin centrifugālis, coined by Christiaan Huygens from Latin centrum (“center”) + fugiō (“to flee”) +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA: /sɛnˈtɹɪf.(j)ə.ɡl̩/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌsɛn.tɹɪˈfjuː.ɡl̩/, (rare)/sɛnˈtɹɪf.jʊ.ɡl̩/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 1993, James C. P. Chen, Chung Chi Chou, Cane Sugar Handbook: ↩

2. 2011, H. Panda, The Complete Book on Sugarcane Processing and By-Products of Molasses: ↩

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