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Example sentences for "centrifugal"

Lexicographically close words:
centred; centrepiece; centres; centric; centrical; centrifugally; centrifuge; centring; centripetal; centripetally
  1. Then it may be employed for the continuous observation of a body submitted to centrifugal force.

  2. In default of gravity, centrifugal force gives us a means of realizing certain conditions that we would find in the laboratory of our magician.

  3. Centripetal and centrifugal are in man, too, and primarily; and an aspiring soul will ascend into the sweeps and circles, and pass swift and devouring through baffling intervals and steep-down strata of galaxies and stars.

  4. The sweeping and centrifugal soul, darting manifold rays of equal reach, realizes the conception of the circle, that is, a figure all of whose radii are equidistant from a central point.

  5. It is the counteraction of the centripetal and the centrifugal forces.

  6. The hydraulic dredge removes the material from the bottom by means of a large centrifugal pump which draws the materials, mixed with water, into a suction tube and forces them to distant points by means of a long line of pipes.

  7. The centrifugal paths from the motor speech-center to the motor nerves of speech and to their extremities, or else these nerves themselves, are injured.

  8. It follows from this, therefore, that the greater is the divergence of the balls of the governor, and the more rapidly they revolve, the greater will be their centrifugal force.

  9. This would cause the balls I to revolve with less speed, and the centrifugal force produced by their circular motion would be diminished.

  10. If the velocity of revolution be the same, then the centrifugal force will increase in the same proportion as the distance of the revolving body from the centre.

  11. The gravitation, therefore, or tendency of the ball to fall towards the central axis being greater at P than at p it will be able to resist a greater centrifugal force.

  12. The centrifugal force which attends their motion would therefore give them a tendency to move from the axle, or to diverge.

  13. When the balls, by diverging, get such increased gravitation as to balance the centrifugal force, then they will continue to revolve at a fixed distance from the vertical axis.

  14. The spheroidal shape of the Earth, slightly flattened at the poles and swollen at the equator, has been produced by the rotary motion, by the centrifugal force that it engenders.

  15. In virtue of this centrifugal force, which is at its maximum at the equator, objects lose a little of their weight in proportion as they are farther removed from the polar regions where centrifugal force is almost nil.

  16. In virtue of this same centrifugal force, the length of the pendulum in seconds is shorter at the equator than in Paris, and the difference is one of 3 millimeters.

  17. Also, a revolving bifurcate pendulum, with two iron balls, whose centrifugal divergence equalizes the motion of the steam-engine.

  18. An ingenious instrument invented by Troughton, and intended to serve as an artificial horizon at sea; but it was found that its centrifugal force was incapable of counteracting the ordinary motion of a ship.

  19. Here the man-dust which is to form the future political planet is thinly disseminated, swept outward by a centrifugal force.

  20. Jupiter's rapid rotation, weigh one fifth less than they do at the poles, by reason of the centrifugal force.

  21. On nearing the centre, the cause of the separation being removed, the gases reunite to form a liquid, and the centrifugal force again sends this on its journey.

  22. With this checking of the forward motion, the centrifugal force decreases, and the attraction of the central body has more effect.

  23. When this takes place the planet or satellite falls slightly towards the body around which it revolves, thereby increasing its speed till the centrifugal force again balances the centripetal.

  24. Magnetism being practically as instantaneous as gravitation, the only limitations to speed are the electrical pressure at the magnets, the resistance of the air, and the danger of the wheels bursting from centrifugal force.

  25. From the top of the dye-chamber passes a pipe to a centrifugal pump, and a similar pipe passes from the bottom of the chamber to the pump.

  26. The process is as follows: The hot alkali solution is circulated by means of a distributing pipe through the action of an injector or centrifugal pump to scour the yarn; then water is circulated by means of a centrifugal pump for washing.

  27. C is in contact with the suction end of a centrifugal pump P, the delivery end of which discharges into the dye-vat A.

  28. As to what is said of the centrifugal force, that it does not at all belong to circular relative motion, I do not see how this follows from the experiment which is brought to prove it.

  29. Fifthly, in circular motion barely relative there is no centrifugal force, which, nevertheless, in that which is true or absolute, is proportional to the quantity of motion.

  30. In another system a centrifugal fan blows air through an arrangement of pipes which distributes it to the drying sheds, and discharges it close to the floor by various branch pipes.

  31. When clean, the hair is transferred to a centrifugal machine or "spinner," in which much adhering water is removed.

  32. A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms.

  33. Hence this latter force is often called centrifugal force.

  34. Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions) outwards.

  35. The charge is then washed in a very similar manner to that previously described, and again wrung out in a centrifugal extractor (1,200 revolutions per minute).

  36. When coming out of the centrifugal machines, the gun-cotton should always pass first through a sieve, in order to detect nails or matches which may by chance have got into it.

  37. None of the granules must be carried round by centrifugal force, but it must be fast enough to carry them some little distance up the side of the drum.

  38. After the cotton has been well washed, it is again wrung out in a centrifugal machine, and afterwards allowed to steep in water for some time.

  39. The warmer the mixture and the less water it contains, the more liable it is to decomposition; hence it is that on warm and damp days the centrifugal machines are most likely to fire.

  40. The centrifugal force of the revolving tube throws the paper towards the sides of the vessel, leaving the centre of the vessel ready for fresh paper.

  41. This is done by placing the contents of two or three or more pots into a centrifugal hydro-extractor (Fig.

  42. The actual nitration of cotton is not a dangerous operation, but the operations of wringing in the hydro-extractors, and washing the nitro- cotton after it leaves the first centrifugal machine, are somewhat so.

  43. It rests on that most basic of distinctions between the sexes, the centripetal and centrifugal forces of the universe.

  44. The centrifugal force, not being properly balanced by any centripetal power, inevitably ends in dissolution.

  45. The great object in this is to generate a centrifugal force which may counteract the weight of the body.

  46. They got within feet, within inches, of their prey, only to be dragged away by the mysterious protector of militant maidens--centrifugal force.

  47. The two policemen had fled also--probably for reinforcements and appliances against centrifugal force.

  48. The strange and side-splitting effects of centrifugal force had transformed about a hundred indifferent young men and women into ardent and convinced supporters of feminism in its most advanced form.

  49. But centrifugal force had rendered them ridiculous, and the public never sympathises with those whom ridicule has covered.

  50. It has that centrifugal force which Mr. Calderon so brilliantly suggests as the main characteristic of the dramas of Chekhov.

  51. Plateau's illustration of the mode in which centrifugal force acts in overcoming molecular attraction, has been cited as a demonstration of the truth of the nebular hypothesis.

  52. The cord which binds it to the finger may be compared to the centripetal force, whilst the centrifugal power is illustrated by the water pressing against the sides and remaining in the vessel.

  53. A hoop when trundled would tumble on its side if the force of gravitation was not overcome by the centrifugal force which imparts to it a motion in the direction of a tangent (tango, to touch) to a circle.

  54. If the thermometer has been well made, and is quite free from air, it may be tied to a string and swung violently round, when the centrifugal force drives the slender threads of mercury to their common source--viz.

  55. When D D is set in motion, the balls fly out by centrifugal motion, and in doing so draw down the collar into which the lever F works by means of the links f h.

  56. The toy called the centrifugal railway is also a very pretty illustration of the same fact.

  57. This engine had a water-jacket, centrifugal governor, and flame ignition.

  58. The centrifugal governor is often arranged so that instead of the charge being merely reduced in volume, the whole charge is cut out, and no explosion whatever takes place.

  59. Another application of the centrifugal governor is to suspend a distance piece on the end of the governor lever, so that at normal speed this distance piece is interposed between the gas valve spindle and the lever operating it.


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