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centripetal
 
Adjective centripetal has 3 senses
  1. centripetal - tending to move toward a center; "centripetal force"
    Antonyms:     centrifugal, outward-moving, outward-developing
  2. centripetal, unifying - tending to unify
    Antonyms: decentralizing, decentralising (indirect, via centralizing)
  3. centripetal, receptive, sensory - of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system; "sensory neurons"
    Antonyms: efferent, motorial (indirect, via afferent)
centrifugally centrifugate centrifugation centrifuge centrifuges centrimeters centrino centriole centripetal centripetal acceleration centripetal force centris centriscidae centrism centrist centrium centro

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