centripetal Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective tending to move toward a center
- centripetal force
adjective satellite tending to unify
unifying.
adjective satellite of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system
sensory; receptive.
- sensory neurons

L. centrum center + peter to more toward.

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