centrifugal

adj

1. (not-comparable)Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
2. (not-comparable)Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
3. (not-comparable)Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.

noun

1. A rotating machine used to separate massecuite into sugar crystals and molasses.

   “Where the sequencing of the centrifugals is accomplished by the triggering of a function in the process cycle, a buffer zone (nonproductive time) has to be inserted in the cycle time prior to this action.”

   “Modern practice favours warming the massecuite in pug mills, placed above the centrifugals.”