Centrifugal is an adjective that means moving or tending to move away from a centre.
Dating back to the early 18th century, our word of the day comes from two Latin words, centrum (SCENT room) meaning ‘center,’ and fugus (FOO goose) meaning ‘fleeing.’
Centrifugal is often used to describe a particular act of physics in which a spinning object moving at a high speed will move from the center. Example:
It could watch the centrifugal forces of my son’s model all day. Watching the thing spin in a circle is as fascinating as any movie I’ve ever seen.
