CENTER OF GRAVITY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The point within something at which gravity can be considered to act; in uniform gravity it is equal to the center of mass

Synonyms:

center of gravity; centre of gravity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("center of gravity" 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 gravity"):

center of flotation; centre of flotation (the center of gravity of a floating object)

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