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Definitions of centripetal in various dictionaries:
adj - tending to move toward a center
adj - tending to unify
adj - of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system
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| Inward-pulling (force) |
| Force of nature? |
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| Sep 1 2018 New York Times |
| Jan 6 2005 The Guardian - Quick crossword |
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| In the hammer throw, a wire exerts this force on the hammer, keeping it moving in a circle |
| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew swishes a quarter inside an inflated baloon.) The quarter inside the balloon continues in a circular motion, because the balloon is imposing this inward force, from the Latin for "seek the center" |
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| Physiology Transmitting nerve impulses toward the central nervous system afferent. |
| Botany Developing or progressing inward toward the center or axis, as in the head of a sunflower, in which the oldest flowers are near the edge and the youngest flowers are in the center. |
| Tending or directed toward centralization: the centripetal effects of a homogeneous population. |
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A Centripetal force (from Latin centrum, "center" and petere, "to seek") is a force that makes a body follow a curved path. Its direction is always orthogonal to the motion of the body and towards the fixed point of the instantaneous center of curvature of the path. Isaac Newton described it as "a force by which bodies are drawn or impelled, or in any way tend, towards a point as to a centre". In Newtonian mechanics, gravity provides the centripetal force responsible for astronomical orbits. * One common example involving centripetal force is the case in which a body moves with uniform speed along a circular path. The centripetal force is directed at right angles to the motion and also along the radius towards the centre of the circular path. The mathematical description was derived in 1659 by the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens. |