Dictionary Entry
centripetal
centripetal is a 11-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Tending, or causing, to approach the center. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Tending, or causing, to approach the center.
- 2adjective
Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit.
- 3adjective
Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos.
- 4adjective
Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.
- 5adjective
tending to move toward a center
"centripetal force"
- 6adjective
of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system
"sensory neurons"
- 7adjective
tending to unify
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