centripetal force

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centripetal force (countable and uncountable, plural centripetal forces)

  1. (physics) The force on a rotating or orbiting body in the direction of the centre of rotation.
    • 1726, Isaac Newton, translated by Andrew Motte, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published 1729:
      A Centripetal force is that by which bodies are drawn or impelled, or any way tend, towards a point as to a centre.

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