a. and sb. [a. F. centrifuge centrifugal.] A. adj. = CENTRIFUGAL.
1801. Fuseli, Lect. Art, iii. (1848), 408. The projectile and centrifuge qualities of the system.
B. sb. A centrifugal machine; spec. one for separating cream from milk by rotary motion.
1887. Pall Mall Gaz., 27 Sept., 2/2. Two of the Danish centrifuges, which have a rotary motion equal to 4,000 revolutions a minute. They … effect an instantaneous partition of the cream from the milk.
1887. Scot. Leader, 29 Sept., 4. His dairymaids are Danish centrifuges.
