centrífuga
Portuguese, noun
centrífuga is spelled C-E-N-T-R-Í-F-U-G-A (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 41,403rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Centrífuga is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “centrifuge (machine)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of centrífugo. Without its accent, centrifuga is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “eletrodoméstico com que se extrai o sumo de frutas e hortaliças”.
What does centrífuga mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecentrifuge (machine)
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of centrífugo
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. eletrodoméstico com que se extrai o sumo de frutas e hortaliças 2. máquiina que, mediante rotação centrífuga de alta velocidade, separa substâncias de densidades distintas
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of centrífuga
- centrífugas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to centrífuga
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is centrífuga in Portuguese?
centrífuga appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).