Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See center of mass.
Wiktionary
- n. physics The center of a mass; often specifically, the point at which the gravitational forces exerted by two objects are equal
- n. geometry The centroid, the geometric center of a plane figure
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the point representing the mean position of the matter in a body.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (astronomy) the common center of mass around which two or more bodies revolve
Etymologies
- bary- + center (Wiktionary)
- Greek barus, heavy; see gwerə-1 in Indo-European roots + center. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Stars in pairs both orbit around a point in space called a barycenter, and researchers at times saw these orbits were slightly off, suggesting the presence of a planet tugging at both stars.”
“Stars in pairs both orbit around a point in space called barycenter, and researchers at times saw these orbits were slightly off, suggesting the presence of a planet tugging at both stars.”
“OK… in refreshing my knowledge, I’m guessing the location of the barycenter is the deciding factor here… One just hope that the “official” definition, when agreed upon, is more exhaustive than that quoted in the article in order to make that clear…”
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“The oxygen sits near the barycenter of the tetrahedron.”
“The individuals of the population all exist in a relatively small locus in gene space, as a cloud of data points---obviously, with a barycenter.”
“Think of a "population barycenter", where different parts of the population system individuals have unequal survival differentials, even if only very slight.”
“As the generations pass by, it is rather obvious that the barycenter will drift in a nonrandom direction if the differentials are not "symmetric" around it.”
“Secondly, imagine them not simply floating semi-idly but rather orbiting an apparent barycenter, like an underwater solar system of satellite hatcheries revolving around a feeder sphere from which nutrients ooze out and are fling outwards towards awaiting hungry fishes.”
“Even if we accept this as true, the barycenter of this relationship is far closer to the writer than to the reader.”
“Ditto if someone should spot a pair of Jupiter-sized objects orbitting one another with a barycenter between them around some distant star.”
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Astronomical Words
Words used in Astronomy
perihelion, perigee, apoapsis, periastron, apastron, apsis, zenith, aphelion, perturbations, barycenter, equinox, nadir and 21 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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