Poll: Centrifugal force?

milltown · 09-12-2006 12:48PM #1

How do you pronounce it?

Sen-triff-yoo-gal?

or

Sentriffigle?

dudara · 09-12-2006 12:52PM

The first way.

From dictionary.com

cen·trif·u·gal /sɛnˈtrɪfyəgəl, -əgəl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[sen-trif-yuh-guhl, -uh-guhl] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. moving or directed outward from the center (opposed to centripetal).
2. pertaining to or operated by centrifugal force: a centrifugal pump.
3. Physiology. efferent.
–noun
4. Machinery.
a. a machine for separating different materials by centrifugal force; centrifuge.
b. a rotating, perforated drum holding the materials to be separated in such a machine.

You might be getting the second option mixed up with centripetal force, by the sound of it.

tywy · 09-12-2006 12:53PM

I pronounce it Sen-triff-yoo-gal but I pronounce Centripital, Senntripitle and not Senn-Tripp-it-al

funny poll! draw all the nerds in!

milltown · 09-12-2006 02:28PM

dudara wrote:

You might be getting the second option mixed up with centripetal force, by the sound of it.

I pronounce it yoo-gal, and, for the record, centripetal I pronounce pee-tal.

I ask the centrifugal question because I listened to two guys in work discuss a machine problem the other day. Both had different pronunciations but neither commented on the other's.