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What does centrifugal force mean?

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Noun
  1. 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).
  2. (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.
  3. (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.
  4. (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.
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Colliding with shorter broken lines along the way, each element seems to gather energy and speed in a display of centrifugal force.
These are the ones with a fixed wheel and a heavy flywheel with loads of centrifugal force.
Allow centrifugal force to provide balance while both skates tip onto their left edges in the turn.
Some of the most common separation techniques are leaching, flotation, filtration, chromatography, and centrifugal force.
Now they've found that the centrifugal force of a spinning ring balances the pull of gravity all by itself.
The three-way balance between centrifugal force, Coriolos force, and the pressure-gradient force is called the gradient flow.

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