centripetal
adjective/ˌsentrɪˈpiːtl/, /senˈtrɪpɪtl/
/senˈtrɪpɪtl/
(specialist)- moving or tending to move towards a centreOxford Collocations DictionaryCentripetal is used with these nouns:
- force
Word Originearly 18th cent.: from modern Latin centripetus, from Latin centrum (from Greek kentron ‘sharp point, stationary point of a pair of compasses’, related to kentein ‘to prick’) + -petus ‘seeking’ (from petere ‘seek’).Definitions on the go
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