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Centripetal usually refers to centripetal force, a force that keeps a body on a curved path.
It may also refer to:
- Centripetal acceleration
- Centripetal Catmull–Rom spline (computer graphics)
- Centripetal harmony
- Centripetal obesity
- Centripetal Spring Armchair
- Centripetal structure (theoretical linguistics) – see Lucien Tesnière