Crossword-Solution: CENTRIPETAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “CENTRIPETAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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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 |
| concentrating | 35 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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…
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.
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2018–2022).