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CENTRIPETAL ACCELERATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does centripetal acceleration mean?
• CENTRIPETAL ACCELERATION (noun)
The noun CENTRIPETAL ACCELERATION has 1 sense:
1. the acceleration toward the center that holds a satellite in elliptical orbit
Familiarity information: CENTRIPETAL ACCELERATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CENTRIPETAL ACCELERATION (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The acceleration toward the center that holds a satellite in elliptical orbit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("centripetal acceleration" is a kind of...):
acceleration ((physics) a rate of increase of velocity)
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