centripetal
‘tending or moving toward a center’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. centripetall, centripetal < Lat. centri- < centrum ‘center’ < Gk. kentron ‘sharp point, goad, sting of a wasp’ < kentein ‘stitch’ + petere ‘to make for, go to; seek, strive after’ < sent < kent- < Tamil kaṇṭam
Other meanings: any force that tends to cause a moving body to follow a circular or otherwise curved path by drawing the body towards the centre of the curve.