2. Adverb. using centripetal force ¹
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Definition of Centripetally
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Centripetally
Literary usage of Centripetally
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The Multiple Functions of the Afferent Receptive or centripetally Conducting
Neuron Systems Beginning in the-skin, mucous membranes and internal organs of ..."
2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Francis Wall Oliver (1902)
"Plants with petiolate leaves, which conduct rain centripetally, ... In most cases,
therefore, cauline leaves which conduct water centripetally are either ..."
3. Design in Nature: Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the by James Bell Pettigrew (1908)
"They are retracted in an opposite direction or centripetally. They are not due
to contractions : if they werv the projections would not be conical-shaped ..."
4. A Manual of pharmacodynamics by Richard Hughes (1899)
"It is not so well known that a strong current passed centripetally along these
... We have only then to suppose that Tartar emetic excites centripetally the ..."
5. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1867)
"It is not so well known that a strong current passed centripetally along these
... We have only then to suppose that Tartar Emetic excites centripetally the ..."
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