Centrifuge vs. Microcentrifuge: What's the Difference?

An apparatus consisting essentially of a compartment spun about a central axis to separate contained materials of different specific gravities, or to separate colloidal particles suspended in a liquid.

A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).

An apparatus in which humans or animals are enclosed and which is revolved to simulate the effects of acceleration in a spacecraft.

(transitive) To centrifuge in such a device.

To rotate (something) in a centrifuge or to separate, dehydrate, or test by means of this apparatus.

A device in which a mixture of denser and lighter materials (normally dispersed in a liquid) is separated by being spun about a central axis at high speed.

(figuratively) An apparatus in which humans are spun to simulate acceleration in an aircraft or spacecraft.

To rotate something in a centrifuge, typically in order to separate its constituents.

An apparatus having containers for liquids arrayed around a central pivot and rotated at a high speed, thus generating centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.

To drive out; to subject to the action of a centrifuge.

An apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension

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