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单词 centrifugal motion
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centrifugal motion
b. That is directed away from the centre, esp. as a perceived result of the action of a centrifugal force; associated with or attributed to a centrifugal force; as centrifugal tendency, centrifugal motion, etc.
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1709 R. Stewart Ess. Machine Perpetual Motion 18 The Orbs of the Universe..movable about their Centers..but in no degree of actual Motion, except the Centripetal and Centrifugal.
1764 R. Long Astron. II. iv. iii. 613 In a globe which has a rotation round its axis, the several parts of the surface thereof are carried with different degrees of velocity, and consequently with different degrees of centrifugal motion.
1848 J. Brocklesby Elements Meteorol. ii. iii. 66 By the centrifugal action of the whirl, the air is driven outward, as in the case of hurricanes.
1866 G. B. Airy Pop. Astron. (ed. 5) 241 The centrifugal tendency is powerfully in operation at the equator, but not at all at the poles.
1928 Science 7 Dec. 550/2 At various stages of the contraction, the centrifugal acceleration at the equator of the rotating mass equaled the gravitational acceleration toward its center.
1983 I. Asimov Roving Mind vi. xlix. 277 The settlements will turn so as to produce a centrifugal effect that will mimic normal gravity on their inner surfaces.
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