Adjective : a centrifugal pump. From Dictionary.com.
On any one wheel, all the available puffins are lifted and spun centrifugally in a continuous circuit three hundred feet across and a hundred feet deep. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
Unlike Kaufman's other stories, this one (dreamily directed by Michel Gondry) doesn't fling its characters centrifugally toward deeper loneliness or death. From Wordnik.com. [Untangling Charlie Kaufman] Reference
Immediately one of the gunships at the rear of their V-formation dove, curved back the way they had come in a centrifugally perfect arc, and raked the treeline with rocket and minigun fire. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
Peering from beneath hoods, wearing sweatpants, clutching blankets, huddling sideways in their chairs as if centrifugally dislodged from their own lives, the celebs tell their stories at group sessions. From Wordnik.com. [Retching With the Stars] Reference
In Borushko's estimation, Shelley's patriotism is actually one with his visionary cosmopolitanism, an ethical demand for a life lived centrifugally, a love always taking one out of one's private and national self. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
The street is unpaved, the horse is unshod, the hoofs cannot be heard, and you have hardly time to efface yourself against a wall when a cavalier passes by like a careless torrent, scattering the white bornouses centrifugally from his pathway as he advances. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
The turn was bad enough, crushing the chest but when I shot up to the ridge, hanging centrifugally before flattening out to the fall line again with the skids wobbling left and right, it seemed it might be a good idea to ... um ... stop if you don't mind ... please?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
Between each two rows of tubs in the center of the room were enormous whirling separators or dryers, into which these webs of cloth, as they came from the tubs in which they had been shrinking for twenty-four hours, were piled and as much water as possible centrifugally extracted before they were spread out on the drying racks. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
Plants develop centrifugally, spread their organs abroad. From Wordnik.com. [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference
Cells were centrifugally elutriated to collect a synchronous population of small, un-budded cells in G1. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Planned by Rotary Rocket Inc, the Roton was to use a centrifugally-pumped rocket motor for launch, and a helicopter rotor for descent. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Air Berlin loss narrows to 9.5m euros] Reference
A single unit among many thousands of celestial bodies is our sun, with its planets, which originated by being centrifugally thrown off from it. From Wordnik.com. [Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science] Reference
Diversity arises centrifugally, according to the provinces explored and the degree of mutual checking and control to which the various extensions are subjected. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
We have so little consensus as to anything, because we dread the loss of personality involved in submitting to conventions, and because personality operates centrifugally alone. From Wordnik.com. [New York After Paris] Reference
In these four cases the impulse was sent in the first place laterally, that is, in the same concentric row of tentacles, and then towards the centre; but not centrifugally, or towards the exterior tentacles. From Wordnik.com. [Insectivorous Plants] Reference
The British Association then, as a whole, faces physical nature on all sides, and pushes knowledge centrifugally outwards, the sum of its labours constituting what Fichte might call the sphere of natural knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
In the course of some hours this minute bit of meat, from having been brought into contact with some of the glands of the central disc, acted centrifugally on the outer tentacles, which all became closely inflected. From Wordnik.com. [Insectivorous Plants] Reference
Hobas Experts will show visitors how an intelligent combination of centrifugally cast and filament wound products optimally meets the tightening requirements set by clients from the urban water management and industrial sector. From Wordnik.com. [Jeccomposites.com News] Reference
That the central glands, if irritated, send centrifugally some influence to the exterior glands, causing them to send back a centripetal influence inducing aggregation, is perhaps the most interesting fact given in this chapter. From Wordnik.com. [Insectivorous Plants] Reference
With manned expeditions to Mars set for the coming decades, and the chances strong that interplanetary ships may not have room for centrifugally-spun living areas, NASA needs to find ways for humans to stay healthy after long spells in microgravity. From Wordnik.com. [The Register] Reference
This point of view is not, for reason, locally or naturally determined; sense alone is limited in that material fashion, being seated in the body and looking thence centrifugally upon things in so far as they come into dynamic relations with that body. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
We show that the pathway associated with successive cytokinesis (cytoplasm is partitioned after each meiotic division) is restricted to wall formation mediated by centrifugally developing cell plates, and tetragonal (or decussate, T-shaped, linear) tetrads. From Wordnik.com. [Seeds Aside] Reference
The leaders of Canadian life who followed Confederation have worked centrifugally rather than centripetally, with the result that we are farther away than ever from having national schools in Canada, and the gulf between our two leading nationalities has been widened instead of narrowed. From Wordnik.com. [Can We Achieve Canadian Unity?] Reference
Even using the exact same metals, there are dozens of way to forge, treat for a long duration/short duration, shot-peen, plasma coat, cryo-treat, magno-align, simulated zero-G casting, centrifugally cast high-G, vibro-cast etc. the same component of the same alloy and such knowledge is guarded. From Wordnik.com. [F1Central.net Latest News] Reference
But there is one important difference: when the central glands are irritated, they transmit centrifugally an influence up the pedicels of the exterior tentacles to their glands; but the actual process of aggregation travels centripetally, from the glands of the exterior tentacles down their pedicels. From Wordnik.com. [Insectivorous Plants] Reference
Here, for God's sake - "and here it comes spinning through the air, legs cocked centrifugally outward: dithering Slothrop drops the bottle just before the crab smacks against his other palm. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
The next minute he was getting the newly-made circular net with its pipe-leads from where it hung over the rafters of his shed, and striding down to a suitable shallow where a shoal of small fish could be seen, he ranged the net upon his arm, holding the cord tightly, and, giving himself a spin round, threw the net so that it spread out flat, with the pipe-leads flying out centrifugally, and covering a good deal of space, the leads driving the fish into the centre. From Wordnik.com. [Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp] Reference
Even using the exact same metals, there are dozens of way to forge, treat for a long duration/short duration, shot-peen, plasma coat, cryo-treat, magno-align, simulated zero-G casting, centrifugally cast high-G, vibro-cast etc. the same component of the same alloy and such knowledge is guarded. and don't forget shaken, not stirred. From Wordnik.com. [F1Central.net Latest News] Reference
But there are two sorts of movement out here-as often as the chance displacements of strangers, across a clear skirmish-line from the Force, will bring together people who'll remain that way for a time, in love that can even make the oppression seem a failure, so too love, here in the street, can be taken centrifugally apart again: faces seen for the last time here, words spoken idly, over your shoulder, taking for granted she's there, already last words - "Will Walter be bringing wine tonight?. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
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