Physiology Transmitting nerve impulses away from the central nervous system; efferent.
Botany Developing or progressing outward from a center or axis, as in a flower cluster in which the oldest flowers are in the center and the youngest flowers are near the edge.
Tending or directed away from centralization, as of authority: "The division of Europe into two warring blocs, each ultimately dependent on a superpower patron, is subject to ever-increasing centrifugal stress"(Scott Sullivan).
[From New Latin centrifugus : Latin centrum, center; see center + Latin fugere, to flee.] cen·trif'u·gal·ism n., cen·trif'u·gal·ly adv.
(sěn-trĭf'yə-gəl, -trĭf'ə-) 