ALL meanings of centrifugal force
cen·trif·u·gal force
C c - uncountable noun centrifugal force In physics, centrifugal force is the force that makes objects move outwards when they are spinning around something or travelling in a curve. 3
- noun centrifugal force a fictitious force that can be thought of as acting outwards on any body that rotates or moves along a curved path 3
- noun centrifugal force an inertial force which tends to pull an object outward when it is in orbit or is rotating around a center 3
- noun centrifugal force Centrifugal force is the tendency of an object moving in a circle to travel away from the center of the circle. 3
- noun centrifugal force an outward force on a body rotating about an axis, assumed equal and opposite to the centripetal force and postulated to account for the phenomena seen by an observer in the rotating body. 1
- noun centrifugal force in everyday understanding, centrifugal force is the effect that tends to move an object away from the center of a circle it is rotating about (a consequence of inertia). 0
- noun centrifugal force (physics): 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. 0
- noun centrifugal force (physics): 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. 0
- noun centrifugal force (physics): 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. 0