Usually means: Attraction or force towards center.
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  1. centripetency: Wordnik
  2. centripetency: Wiktionary
  3. Centripetency: Dictionary.com
  4. Centripetency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. centripetency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Centripetency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. centripetency: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Centripetency: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  centripetence; tendency towards the centre

Similar:
centripetence, centrality, centripetal force, cent, centration, metacentric stability, centrifugal force, dead center, paracentric, space centrode, more...

Opposite:
centrifugency, outward force, outward pull

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Similar:
centripetence, centrality, centripetal force, cent, centration, metacentric stability, centrifugal force, dead center, paracentric, space centrode, more...

Opposite:
centrifugency, outward force, outward pull



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