Crossword-Solution: CENTRIPETAL 11 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word Word Type Definition
Centripetal a. Tending, or causing, to approach the center.
Centripetal a. Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and
proceeding in order towards the summit.
Centripetal a. Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the
fruit, as some embryos.
Centripetal a. Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing
toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.

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TENDING towards the center/centre 1 answer
Type of force exerted on roller-coaster riders during a loop 1 answer
of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system 1 answer
tending to move toward a center 1 answer
tending to unify 1 answer
Force of nature? 6 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with CENTRIPETAL (5)

And she had a shamed recollection of the way in which, a few hours since, she had felt the centripetal force of their standards.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995
Simultaneously with the steering, incline the apparatus to the side toward which it is desired to turn, so that the centrifugal force shall be balanced by the centripetal force.
Flying Machines W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell 1997
Then the consideration of Kepler's Third Law of planetary motion suggested to many minds perhaps independently the probability that the force hitherto mentioned merely as centripetal, through the operation of which the planets are held in their orbits is a force varying inversely as the square of the distance from the sun.
A History of Science, Volume 2(of 5) Henry Smith Williams 1999
Progressively abandoning reading and writing and replacing them with other forms of communication and reception, humans participate in another structural change: from centralization to decentralization; from a centripetal model of existence and activity, with the traditional system of values as an attraction point (religious, aesthetic, moral, political values, among others) to a centrifugal model; and from a monolithic to a pluralistic model.
The Civilization of Illiteracy Mihai Nadin 2000
The Revolution had found him a young student in a cell by the Cam, poring on the diagrams which illustrated the newly discovered laws of centripetal and centrifugal force, writing little copies of verses, and indulging visions of parsonages with rich glebes, and of closes in old cathedral towns had developed in him new talents; had held out to him the hope of prizes of a very different sort from a rectory or a prebend.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. Thomas Babington Macaulay 2001

Quotes with CENTRIPETAL (3)

But it is just as useless for a man to want first of all to decide the externals and after that the fundamentals as it is for a cosmic body, thinking to form itself, first of all to decide the nature of its surface, to what bodies it should turn its light, to which its dark side, without first letting the harmony of centrifugal and centripetal forces realize [*realisere*] its existence [*Existents*] and letting the rest come of itself. One must learn first to know himself bef…
Soren Kierkegaard
All ponzi schemes are upheld by a centripetal force caused by those orbiting the circles of power, celebrity and wealth and trying to get in. When the ponzi scheme reaches its point of maximum growth, the force disperses and the ponzi scheme collapses.
Heather Marsh Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale
The Existential-Epistemic Spiral — Meaning Our central beliefs shape and guide us, but the staggering synergistic power of our dynamics working together creates an existential centripetal force at the core of our being — meaning. Nothing affects us like meaning. Meaning is everything, the cumulative effect of all dynamics spinning inside of us. It generates and sustains our identity, creates stability and purpose. It drives our choices, shapes our feelings, and guides our morality.
Daniel Ionson And the Truth Shall Make You Flee: Confronting the Truth-Seekers' Fears and Failures
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Appears in: New Yorker, NYT.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (2018–2022).