意味(日本語)

求心の、中心に向かう ◇centri(＝center) ＝ 中心を求める、反対語 centrifugal(＝遠心の)

語源

• pet-, petit-, pet- : L.petere = to make for（追い求める）、seek(求める)

意味(英語)

• (adjective) Moving or directed toward a center or axis.
• (adjective) Operated by means of centripetal force.
• (adjective) Physiology Transmitting nerve impulses toward the central nervous system; afferent.
• (adjective) Botany Developing or progressing inward toward the center or axis, as in the head of a sunflower, in which the oldest flowers are near the edge and the youngest flowers are in the center.
• (adjective) Tending or directed toward centralization: the centripetal effects of a homogeneous population.

例文

• That force which opposes itself to this endeavor, and by which the sling continually draws back the stone toward the hand and retains it in its orbit, because it is directed to the hand as the center of the orbit, I call the centripetal force.

競う、争う ◇com(＝together) ＝ 一つの物を求めて共に飛ぶ、争う

語源

• pet-, petit-, pet- : L.petere = to make for（追い求める）、seek(求める)

競争、

語源

• pet-, petit-, pet- : L.petere = to make for（追い求める）、seek(求める)

競争力の有る、競争の

語源

• pet-, petit-, pet- : L.petere = to make for（追い求める）、seek(求める)

競争者

語源

• pet-, petit-, pet- : L.petere = to make for（追い求める）、seek(求める)

資産、能力、資格(競争に十分適している)

語源

• pet-, petit-, pet- : L.petere = to make for（追い求める）、seek(求める)

十分な資格のある、有能な、合法的な

語源

• pet-, petit-, pet- : L.petere = to make for（追い求める）、seek(求める)