CENTRIFUGAL, adjective Tending to recede from the center. The centrifugal force of a body, is that force by which all bodies moving round another body in a curve, tend to fly off from the axis of their motion, in a tangent to the periphery of the curve.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.