centrifugate

1. 1.

   rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids

   Synonymscentrifuge

   Broaderspin

   Narrowerultracentrifuge

Other forms of centrifugate

past tense

centrifugated·

present participle

centrifugating·

third person

centrifugates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about centrifugate

What does centrifugate mean?

centrifugate means "rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids".

How many syllables are in centrifugate?

centrifugate has 4 syllables: cen-tri-fu-gate. The stress falls on "tri".

What is another word for centrifugate?

Close synonyms include centrifuge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is centrifugate a common word?

centrifugate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.