Centripetal

Definition:

  • (a.) Tending, or causing, to approach the center.
  • (a.) Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit.
  • (a.) Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos.
  • (a.) Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.

Compare centripetal with other words:

axipetal vs. centripetal

afferent vs. centripetal

centre vs. centripetal

centripetal vs. moving

centripetal vs. directed

centripetal vs. tangential

centrifugal vs. centripetal