BARYCENTER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (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)

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