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Definitions for Centripetal:

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Centripetal \Cen*trip"e*tal\, a. [L. centrum center + petere to move toward.] 1. Tending, or causing, to approach the center. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) (a) Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit. (b) Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos. [1913 Webster] 3. Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone. --R. Owen. [1913 Webster] Centripetal force (Mech.), a force whose direction is towards a center, as in case of a planet revolving round the sun, the center of the system, See {Centrifugal force}, under Centrifugal. Centripetal impression (Physiol.), an impression (sensory) transmitted by an afferent nerve from the exterior of the body inwards, to the central organ. [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 2.0 :
centripetal adj 1: tending to move toward a center; "centripetal force" [ant: centrifugal] 2: tending to unify [syn: {unifying(a)}] 3: of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system; "sensory neurons" [syn: receptive, {sensory(a)}]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "centripetal": approaching, asymptotic, centrolineal, concentrating, concurrent, confluent, confocal, connivent, consolidating, converging, focal, meeting, mutually approaching, radial, radiating, tangent, tangential, unifying, uniting

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