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Meanings of centripetal in English
Usage of centripetal in English
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Finally, I talked about the origin of the words centrifugal and centripetal.
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A student in my office temporarily confused the words centripetal and centrifugal.
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The centrifugal tendency could no longer be controlled by the centripetal force.
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It is composed of centripetal and centrifugal fibres, having also registering ganglia.
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It is important to note that centripetal force is still some force.
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With this definition, centripetal force would be real and centrifugal not real.
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Scattered action is irresolute; it is the centripetal powers that count.
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Most textbooks use the centripetal force term and use it correctly.
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Outward circumstances form the centripetal force, which keeps us in ours.
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In the world this directing is called centripetal force, also gravitation.
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As the critic Jonathan Meades wrote in 2006: Privilege is centripetal.
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The lower extremities were raised, and manual centripetal frictions freely applied.
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How did the centripetal remainer afford egress to the centrifugal departer?
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Here, the violent action appeared centripetal, but with a southward tendency.
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You see, the district-attorney's office represents the centripetal force of society.
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Victor followed them, already feeling the centripetal force pull him to the floor.
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Centripetal across language varieties
United Kingdom
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