单词 | centrifugence |
释义 | centrifugencen. rare. The tendency of a body or substance to move or be driven away from a central point, esp. as a result of centrifugation. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > movement away from a centre centrifugence1769 irradiation1879 1769 J. Brown Dict. Holy Bible I. 396/1 If the whirling motion of the earth were exceedingly increased, the sea might altogether fly off from the earth,..but God, by a proper balance of gravity and centrifugence, has shut it up. 1850 R. W. Emerson Uses of Great Men in Representative Men i. 32 The centripetence augments the centrifugence. 1883 S. Wainwright Sci. Sophisms vii. 114 As congelation is a property of water, or centrifugience of gas. 1943 Antioch Rev. 3 18 The principle is not teleological, any more than the physical principles of gravitation or centrifugence. 1985 National Inst. Econ. Rev. Nov. 71/1 As a result of..creating a less centralised system in Germany, responsibility for regulating the economy is still dispersed far more widely there than in the UK. The centrifugence initially imposed has been somewhat modified. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1769 |
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