BARYCENTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barycenter mean? 

• BARYCENTER (noun)
  The noun BARYCENTER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BARYCENTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARYCENTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("barycenter" is a kind of...):

center of mass; centre of mass (point representing the mean position of the matter in a body)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)