centrifugal
Adjective
- tending to move away from a center; “centrifugal force”
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- outward-developing
- outward-moving
- tending away from centralization, as of authority; “the division of Europe into warring blocs produces ever-increasing centrifugal stress”
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- decentralizing
- decentralising
- conveying information to the muscles from the CNS; “motor nerves”
centripetal
Adjective
- tending to move toward a center; “centripetal force”
- Antonyms
- Similar to
- inward-developing
- inward-moving
- tending to unify
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- Similar to
- centralizing
- centralising
- of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system; “sensory neurons”
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