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cen·trip·e·tal  audio  (sn-trp-tl) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:
  1. Moving or directed toward a center or axis.
  2. Operated by means of centripetal force.
  3. Physiology Transmitting nerve impulses toward the central nervous system; afferent.
  4. Botany Developing or progressing inward toward the center or axis, as in the head of a sunflower, in which the oldest flowers are near the edge and the youngest flowers are in the center.
  5. Tending or directed toward centralization: the centripetal effects of a homogeneous population.


OTHER FORMS:
cen·tripe·tal·ly(Adverb)


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