Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)In everyday understanding, the effect that tends to move an object away from the center of a circle it is rotating about (a consequence of inertia).

  2. (countable, uncountable)In a rotating reference frame, the apparent force that seems to push all bodies away from the centre of rotation of the frame and is a consequence of the body's mass and the frame's angular speed. It works in conjunction with the Coriolis force to give correct motion.

  3. (countable, uncountable)In circular motion, the 'reactive' centrifugal force is a real force applied by the accelerating body that is equal and opposite to the centripetal force that is acting on the accelerating body.

  4. (countable, uncountable)In polar coordinates, the apparent radial force that acts away from the center and is a consequence of the body's angular speed around the origin.

    the outward force on a body moving in a curved path around another body

  5. (countable, uncountable)Centripetal force.

    Fliehkraft, Zentrifugalkraft

    центробе́жная си́лаcentrobéžnaja síla

    відцентрова силаvidcentrova syla

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Centrifugal force is a fictitious force.

    deDie Zentrifugalkraft ist eine Scheinkraft. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. This is centrifugal force; Newton viewed it as absolute motion.

  3. This is centrifugal force, which Newton viewed as absolute motion.

Translations

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Forms

plural: centrifugal forces

Antonyms

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