ETYM Latin centrum center + fugere to flee.
1. Conveying information to the muscles from the CNS; SYN. motor.
2. Tending away from centralization, as of authority.
3. Tending to move away from a center.

The outward force on a body moving in a curved path around another body.
Useful concept in physics, based on an apparent (but not real) force. It may be regarded as a force that acts radially outward from a spinning or orbiting object, thus balancing the centripetal force (which is real). For an object of mass m moving with a velocity v in a circle of radius r, the centrifugal force F equals mv2/r (outward).
The apparent force that is felt by an object moving in a curved path that acts outwardly away from the center of rotation. + prikaži više