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A rotating machine used to separate massecuite into sugar crystals and molasses.
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Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
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Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
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Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
Examples of centrifugal in a Sentence
The centrifugal force separates the juice from the pulp.
Dangers from abroad would destroy the centrifugal forces at home, and the Union would be saved.
In the West also centrifugal forces made themselves felt.
I like the foot start system and the centrifugal clutch.
When a train is running round a curve the centrifugal force which comes into play tends to make its wheel-flanges press against the outer rail, or even to capsize it.
The history of the Serbs during the first five centuries after their arrival in their present country was a struggle between the attempts at union and centralization of the Zhupaniyas into one state under one government, and the resistance to such union and centralization, a struggle between the centripetal and the centrifugal political forces.
But, in consequence of the centrifugal force generated by the rotation, it assumes a spheroidal form, the equatorial regions bulging out.
This is not the direction of gravity proper, or of the earth's attraction, but the resultant of this attraction combined with the centrifugal force due to the earth's rotation on its axis.
Henceforward royalty, strengthened by victory and organized for the struggle, was able to reduce the centrifugal social forces to impotence.
The principle of the honey extractor (throwing the liquid honey out of the cells by centrifugal force) was discovered quite by accident.
A simple form of machine for extracting honey by centrifugal force was brought to notice in England in 1875, and was soon improved upon, as will be seen in fig.
A study of the figure will show that the centrifugal force round the axis RR will act on the equatorial protuberance of the rotating earth so as to make it tend in the direction of the arrows.
As the latter moves round, P'P' will continually follow it through the incessant change of figure produced by the change in the direction of the centrifugal force.
The expansion of the flowers is in this case centrifugal, that is, from apex to base, or from centre to circumference.
But on examination it is found that there is a central flower expanding first, and from its axis two secondary axes spring bearing solitary flowers; the expansion is thus centrifugal.
The clusters are called verticillasters, and consist of flowers which are produced in a centrifugal manner.
In order to achieve vertical lift he envisaged the use of four centrifugal blowers disposed around the aircraft's center of gravity.
In centrifugal compressors a number of impellers are mounted on a a common rotor in a robust casing.
We are the inventor of the screw centrifugal impeller and are a company totally dedicated to its development and improvement.
There is no perfect centrifugal juicer at the moment.
For high flow rates and at low pressure, centrifugal pumps are clearly the best, according to Hennecke.
Has anyone ever rigged up a centrifugal separator to remove the oil?
There is a standing centrifugal tendency in the church from Paul to Luke.
Centrifugal migration is usually a matter of compulsion; it may be necessitated by natural causes, such as a change of climate leading to the withering of pastures or destruction of agricultural land, to inundation, earthquake, pestilence or to an excess of population over means of support; or to artificial causes, such as the wholesale deportation of a conquered people; or to political or religious persecution.
It was in particular the misfortunes of the later 'seventies that gave the needed fillip to that branch of stock-farming concerned with the production of milk, butter and cheese, and from this period may be said to date the revival of the dairying industry, which received a powerful impetus through the introduction of the centrifugal cream separator, and was fostered by the British Dairy Farmers' Association (formed in 1875).
The centrifugal forces within the Hungarian kingdom are thus increased by the attraction of kindred nationalities established beyond its borders, a fact which is of special importance in considering the vexed and difficult racial problem in Hungary.
In this process the raw sugar is mixed with a small amount of syrup so as to form a suitable magma, and is then run into a continuous centrifugal, where it is sufficiently washed, and from which it runs out, comparatively clean, into the melting pans described above.
It was a fortunate thing for Poland that, during the first century of her ascension to the rank of a great power, political exigencies compelled her to appropriate almost more territory than her primitive and centrifugal government could properly assimilate; it was fortunate that throughout this period of expansion her destinies should, with one brief interval, have been controlled by a couple of superior statesmen, each of whom ruled for nearly fifty years.
In the Elmore process oil is employed to float off the materials which adhere to it, while the other materials remain in the water, the oil being separated from the water by centrifugal action.
This process is aided by centrifugal force from the spinning of the wheel.
Moreover, during the Cold War the response of the outside world to the unleashing of centrifugal forces would have been very different.
A centrifugal juicer chops the fruit or vegetable and then spins it in a basket made of stainless steel or plastic at a high speed, which separates the juice from the pulp.
Inexpensive centrifugal juicers wear out easily, are very loud, and can be very difficult to clean when compared with some of the other types of juicers.
A centrifugal juicer with a pulp ejector operates in the same way as a basic centrifugal juicer.
The blades use centrifugal force to cause friction with then causes heat to warm up the soup.
Centrifugal friction You can cook soups and other foods right in the unit, using the heat generated from the blending action.
Another popular type of centrifugal juicer has a basket with slanted or angled sides.
Notable brands of centrifugal juicers include the Omega 1000 and Omega 9000 series of juicers.
Some of the juicers, such as the pressers and centrifugal juicers, need a bit of strength on your part to operate the machine.
Among the centrifugal forces which determined the future of the Italian race must be reckoned, first and foremost, the new spirit of municipal independence.
Assuming that in its circumpolar origin the North Temperate flora was fairly homogeneous, it would meet in its centrifugal extension with a wide range of local conditions; these would favor the preservation of numerous species in some genera, their greater or less elimination in others.
As the removal of the impurities of the latex is one of the essential points to be aimed at, it was thought that the use of a centrifugal machine to separate the caoutchouc as a cream from the watery part of the latex would prove to be a satisfactory process.
About 1850, efficient ventilators of the centrifugal type were first introduced, and are now almost universally employed where the circulation of large volumes of air is necessary, as in collieries.
The typical mine fan consists of a shaft upon which are mounted a number of vanes enclosed in a casing; the air entering a central side inlet is caught up by the revolving vanes and thrown out at the periphery by the centrifugal force thus generated.
The blower then heats the end of the cylinder again and rapidly spins the pipe about its axis; the centrifugal effect is sufficient to spread the soft glass at the end to a radius equal to that of the rest of the cylinder.
When this is done, the casing is hoisted out of the centrifugal and the vertical plates and the slabs of sugar are extracted.
The crystallized anthracene is then removed by a centrifugal separator and the process of solution in the pyridine bases is repeated.
Mechanical ventilation may be effected either by direct exhaustion or centrifugal displacement of the air to be removed.
A strongly centralized government had ever been Poland's greatest need, and Casimir the Great had striven successfully against all centrifugal tendencies.
Another way of stating the same thing is to say that we introduce, as a correction for the earth's rotation, a force called "centrifugal force," which combined with gravitation gives the weight of the body.