Usually means: Force causing circular motion inward.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. centripetal acceleration: Vocabulary.com
  2. centripetal acceleration: Dictionary.com
  3. Centripetal Acceleration, Centripetal acceleration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. centripetal acceleration: Rhymezone
  5. centripetal acceleration: FreeDictionary.org
  6. centripetal acceleration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  7. centripetal acceleration: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. centripetal acceleration: Wiktionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. centripetal acceleration: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. centripetal acceleration: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Centripetal Acceleration: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See centripetal_accelerations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (centripetal acceleration)

noun:  (physics) acceleration due to centripetal force.


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