"Centripetal" is a word in ENGLISH
Tending, or causing, to approach the center.
Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the
fruit, as some embryos.
Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and
proceeding in order towards the summit.
Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing
toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.
Perhaps there are many "nows" of varying duration, depending on just what it is we are doing. We must face up to the fact that, at least in the case of humans, the subject experiencing subjective time is not a perfect, structureless observer, but a complex, multilayered, multifaceted psyche. Different levels of our consciousness may experience time in quite different ways. This is evidently the case in terms of response time. You have probably had the slightly unnerving experience of jumping at the sound of a telephone a moment or two before you actually hear it ring. The shrill noise induces a reflex response through the nervous system much faster than the time it takes to create the conscious experience of the sound.It is fashionable to attribute certain qualities, such as speech ability, to the left side of the brain, whereas others, such as musical appreciation, belong to processes occurring on the right side. But why should both hemispheres experience a common time? And why should the subconscious use the same mental clock as the conscious?
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Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.
Read the complete definitionTo draw towards a common center or a middle line.
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Read the complete definitionThe state of being central; tendency towards a center.
Read the complete definitionTendency toward the center.
Read the complete definitionMaking Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the …
Read the complete definitionTo bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or …
Read the complete definitionTo come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center.
Read the complete definitionThe tendency of organs (as roots) of plants to assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the …
Read the complete definitionIn the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; …
Read the complete definitionMoving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a …
Read the complete definitionThe tendency of a mass of matter toward a center of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the …
Read the complete definitionBending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals.
Read the complete definitionToward the center; inward; as, to curve inwardly.
Read the complete definitionToward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward.
Read the complete definitionExactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith; at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a …
Read the complete definitionToward or nearest, as to a body, or center of motion of dependence; proximate.
Read the complete definitionDipping toward all points of the compass round a center, as beds of lava round a crater.
Read the complete definitionThe state or condition of a part when drawn back, or towards the center of the body.
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