center of mass

1. 1.

   point representing the mean position of the matter in a body

   Synonymscentre of mass

   Broadercenter

   Narrowercenter of buoyancybarycentercentroid

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Questions about center of mass

What does center of mass mean?

center of mass means "point representing the mean position of the matter in a body".

What is another word for center of mass?

Close synonyms include centre of mass. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is center of mass a common word?

center of mass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.