centrifugal

Adjective
  1. Tending to move away from a center (synset 300333273)
    "centrifugal force"
    similar to:
    • outward-developing - away from an axis, as in a flower cluster in which the oldest flowers are in the center, the youngest near the edge
    • outward-moving - moving or directed away from center, especially when spinning or traveling in a curve
  2. Tending away from centralization, as of authority (synset 300336123)
    "the division of Europe into warring blocs produces ever-increasing centrifugal stress"
    similar to: decentralising, decentralizing - tending away from a central point
  3. Conveying information to the muscles from the CNS (synset 300335143)
    "motor nerves"
    similar to: efferent, motorial - of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS
    same as: motor

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