Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the center of gravity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the center of gravity. See Barycentric calculus, under calculus.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a centre of gravity.

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Examples

  • Re calculations of changes in irradiance due to barycentric motions, that should be pretty trivial to do, as barycentric corrections are a standard software library function in astronomical analysis.

    Unthreaded #13 « Climate Audit 2007

  • · Fix: Fixes for point-in-triangle and moving-sphere-fixed-tri; previous code projected onto the wrong axes, so barycentric coords were wrong for nearly vertical triangles.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010

  • One from the Sun´s internal dynamo, the other (heretical) that of the barycentric movements

    WordPress.com News 2009

  • This contradicts the contention maintained by Thjell and Lassen (2000) and IPCC supporters that the sun's impact on climate has faded away since decades. on the sun's barycentric oscillations

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

  • The sun moves in what is called a “barycentric orbit”, which means it doesn’t sit still at the center of the solar system.

    KTH, Stockholm Conference « Climate Audit 2006

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