CENTRE OF MASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does centre of mass mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENTRE 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 ("centre 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 "centre 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)

Domain region:

Britain (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)