centre_of_mass (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *centre of mass*:
NOUN	location	centre of mass, center of mass	point representing the mean position of the matter in a body

English > *centre of mass*: 1 sense > noun 1, location
Meaning	point representing the mean position of the matter in a body.
Synonym	center of mass
Region	Britain	a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles
Region	Canada	a nation in northern North America
Narrower	barycenter	(astronomy) the common center of mass around which two or more bodies revolve
	center of buoyancy, centre of buoyancy, center of immersion, centre of immersion	(physics) the center of mass of the immersed part of ship or other floating object
	centroid	The center of mass of an object of uniform density / density
Broader	center, centre, midpoint	A point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
Spanish	baricentro
Catalan	baricentre, centre de massa

HyperDic: centre_of_mass