centrifugal

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• 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.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Obtained (as milk or cream) by the *centrifugal method (which see).
• noun A trade-name for any machine which employs centrifugal force to separate a liquid from a solid or to separate liquids of different specific gravities.
• Flying off or proceeding from a center; radiating or sent outward from a focus or central point: opposed to centripetal: as, centrifugal force or energy; centrifugal rays or spokes.
• Operating by radial action; producing effects by centrifugal force: as, a centrifugal filter, pump, or machine. (See phrases below.)
• In psychology, moving from the brain to the periphery.
• noun plural Sugars made in a centrifugal machine.
• noun A drum in a centrifugal machine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
• adjective Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
• adjective Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
• adjective (Mech.) a force whose direction is from a center.
• adjective (Physiol.) an impression (motor) sent from a nerve center outwards to a muscle or muscles by which motion is produced.
• adjective A machine for expelling water or other fluids from moist substances, or for separating liquids of different densities by centrifugal action; a whirling table.
• adjective a machine in which water or other fluid is lifted and discharged through a pipe by the energy imparted by a wheel or blades revolving in a fixed case. Some of the largest and most powerful pumps are of this kind.
• noun A centrifugal machine.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
• adjective botany Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
• adjective botany Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective conveying information to the muscles from the CNS
• adjective tending to move away from a center
• adjective tending away from centralization, as of authority