Definition of: centrifugal

(sen·trif′yə·gəl, -ə·gəl) adjective
1. Directed or tending away from a center; radiating: opposed to centripetal.
2. Employing centrifugal force: a centrifugal pump.
3. Bot. a Developing from the center or apex outward, or toward the base; determinate, b Turned from the center toward the side of a fruit, as a radicle.
4. Physiol. Leading away from the central nervous system; efferent.
—noun
1. The drum-like rotary part of a centrifuge or other centrifugal machine.
2. plural Sugars from which the molasses has been removed by a centrifugal machine: also centrifugal sugar. [<NL centrifugus <L centrum center + fugere flee]
—cen·trif′u·gal·ly adverb