意味(日本語)

遠心(性)の、遠心力を利用した ◇反対語 centripetal

語源

• fug-, fugit- : L.fugere = to flee(逃げる)

意味(英語)

• (adjective) Moving or directed away from a center or axis.
• (adjective) Operated by means of centrifugal force.
• (adjective) Physiology Transmitting nerve impulses away from the central nervous system; efferent.
• (adjective) Botany Developing or progressing outward from a center or axis, as in a flower cluster in which the oldest flowers are in the center and the youngest flowers are near the edge.
• (adjective) Tending or directed away from centralization, as of authority: "The division of Europe into two warring blocs, each ultimately dependent on a superpower patron, is subject to ever-increasing centrifugal stress” ( Scott Sullivan).

例文

• And this yielding of the centripetal power to that which we call centrifugal can only take place in a condition of human society where the idea of communism has been accepted as the ideal and, in some effective measure, realized in fact.