centrifugal

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• General-American: /sɛnˈtɹɪf.(j)ə.ɡl̩/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌsɛn.tɹɪˈfjuː.ɡl̩/
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• Received-Pronunciation, rare: /sɛnˈtɹɪf.jʊ.ɡl̩/
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• CMU ARPABET: S EH1 N T R IH0 F Y UW2 G AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From New Latin centrifugālis, coined by Christiaan Huygens from Latin centrum (“center”) + fugiō (“to flee”) + -al.

18 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: կենտրոնախույս (kentronaxuys) — tending, or causing, to recede from the center
• Azerbaijani: mərkəzdənqaçma — tending, or causing, to recede from the center
• Bulgarian: центробежен (centrobežen) — tending, or causing, to recede from the center
• Czech: odstředivý — tending, or causing, to recede from the center
• Dutch: centrifugaal — tending, or causing, to recede from the center
• Dutch: middelpuntvliedend — tending, or causing, to recede from the center
• Finnish: keskipakoinen — tending, or causing, to recede from the center
• Finnish: sentrifugaalinen — tending, or causing, to recede from the center
• French: centrifuge — tending, or causing, to recede from the center
• German: zentrifugal — tending, or causing, to recede from the center
• Greek: φυγόκεντρος (fygókentros) — tending, or causing, to recede from the center
• Gujarati: કેન્દ્રત્યાગી (kendratyāgī) — tending, or causing, to recede from the center
• Irish: lártheifeach — tending, or causing, to recede from the center
• Lithuanian: išcentrinis — tending, or causing, to recede from the center
• Norwegian Bokmål: sentrifugal — tending, or causing, to recede from the center
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sentrifugal — tending, or causing, to recede from the center
• Polish: odśrodkowy — tending, or causing, to recede from the center
• Russian: центробе́жный (centrobéžnyj) — tending, or causing, to recede from the center