centrifugal force
Noun
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Noun
centrifugal force
- In everyday understanding, the effect that tends to move an object away from the center of a circle it is rotating about (a consequence of inertia).
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- French: force centrifuge
- German: Zentrifugalkraft
- Italian: forza centrifuga
- Portuguese: força centrífuga
- Russian: центробе́жная си́ла
- Spanish: fuerza centrífuga
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