centrifugal

Etymology

From New Latin centrifugālis, coined by Christiaan Huygens from Latin centrum (“center”) + fugiō (“to flee”) + -al.

adj

1. Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
2. (botany) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
3. (botany) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.

noun

1. A rotating machine used to separate massecuite into sugar crystals and molasses.
   Where the sequencing of the centrifugals is accomplished by the triggering of a function in the process cycle, a buffer zone (nonproductive time) has to be inserted in the cycle time prior to this action. 1993, James C. P. Chen, Chung Chi Chou, Cane Sugar Handbook
   Modern practice favours warming the massecuite in pug mills, placed above the centrifugals. 2011, H. Panda, The Complete Book on Sugarcane Processing and By-Products of Molasses