Centripetal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CENTRIPETAL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• tending inwards or developing towards the centre from the outside
• moving or tending to move towards a centre.
• Tending, or causing, to approach the center.
• Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit.
• Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos.
• Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.
• tending to move toward a center
• tending to unify
• of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis

Words related to CENTRIPETAL

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Words that contain CENTRIPETAL

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How to use CENTRIPETAL in a sentence

• Though the weight of a ball increases its centripetal force, it increases its centrifugal force in the same proportion.
• The centripetal force, exerted through the cord, O A, pulls it aside from this direction of motion.
• It is true, the resistance of the body furnishes the measure of the centripetal force.
• That is, the centripetal force must be exerted in a degree sufficient to overcome this resistance, if the body is to move in the circular path.
• Sometimes the centripetal force is weak, and opportunity is afforded to observe this action, and see its character exhibited.
• A common example of weak centripetal force is the adhesion of water to the face of a revolving grindstone.
• That is, it has no motion, either from or toward the center, except that which is produced by the action of the centripetal force.
• The two forces, centripetal and centrifugal, seem to be always pulling against each other, and producing a new resultant which varies according to their proportionate intensity.
• If the centrifugal force had full sway in human society, without being counteracted by a centripetal tendency, anarchy would soon prevail.
• What now are the centripetal forces against which these inducements contend? In the first place, there are a group of forces that will diminish in strength.
• When it is, this particular centripetal pull, at any rate, will have altogether ceased to operate.
• A second important centripetal consideration at present is the desirability of access to good schools and to the doctor.
• A third centripetal force will not be set aside so easily.
• If the centripetal force should overcome the centrifugal and the equilibrium of forces cease, the rush of the Spheres to the Central Sun would annihilate the system.
• None ever possessed such centripetal attractions, or exerted such centrifugal influences for the material well-being of different and distant countries.
• Barbicane, therefore, could not rejoice at the position imposed on the bullet by the double influence of the centripetal and centrifugal forces.
• Rhetoric and utility keep language going, as centrifugal and centripetal forces keep a planet in its course.
• The centripetal forces have always been greater in France than in England and Germany.
• Certainly Uranus was following his orbit under the centripetal and centrifugal laws in the same manner as the other planets.

Similar words containing CENTRIPET without suffix al

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