CENTER OF MASS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Point representing the mean position of the matter in a body

Synonyms:

center of mass; centre of mass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

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)