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1. Tending away from centralization, as of authority
   "the division of Europe into warring blocs produces ever-increasing centrifugal stress"
    
2. Conveying information to the muscles from the CNS
   "centrifugal nerves";
   - motor
    
3. Tending to move away from a centre
   "centrifugal force"

See also: decentralising [Brit], decentralizing, efferent, motorial, outward-developing, outward-moving

Antonym: centripetal

Encyclopedia: Centrifugal