centrifugal
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“The cable is holding you up and simulating centrifugal force on the corner,” Corby said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
These are centrifugal forces shaping the uneasy calm in the world economy.
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025
The individual tiles and reinforcement bars create a striking impression of an enthralling and vertiginous centrifugal motion.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025
As an earthbound motorcyclist speeds around the cylinder, their inertia pushes them into the wall, creating an outward centrifugal force.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 30, 2024
He invented the spiral balance spring still used in some watches today; made fundamental contributions to mechanics—e.g., the calculation of centrifugal force—and, from a study of the game of dice, to the theory of probability.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
