CENTER OF MASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does center of mass mean? 

• CENTER OF MASS (noun)
  The noun CENTER OF MASS has 1 sense:

1. point representing the mean position of the matter in a body

  Familiarity information: CENTER OF MASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENTER OF MASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Point representing the mean position of the matter in a body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

center of mass; centre of mass

Hypernyms ("center of mass" is a kind of...):

center; centre; midpoint (a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "center of mass"):

center of buoyancy; center of immersion; centre of buoyancy; centre of immersion ((physics) the center of mass of the immersed part of ship or other floating object)

barycenter ((astronomy) the common center of mass around which two or more bodies revolve)

centroid (the center of mass of an object of uniform density)

 Context examples 

A point that is the center of mass of an object of uniform density or the geometric center of a planar object.

(Centroid, NCI Thesaurus)