moving or tending to move away from a centre 离心的 Oxford Collocations DictionaryCentrifugal is used with these nouns:- force
- tendency
Word Originearly 18th cent.: from modern Latin centrifugus, from Latin centrum (from Greek kentron ‘sharp point, stationary point of a pair of compasses’, related to kentein ‘to prick’) + -fugus ‘fleeing’ (from fugere ‘flee’).