Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That position from which as an origin the mean value of all the rectangular or oblique coördinates of the particles of a body is zero.
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Examples
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The shapes and angles of the plates have nothing to do with it, except that the perpendicular distance of the plate edges from the mass-center line determines thickness of the beam of parallel current-rays.
The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914
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This line is the theoretical straight line passing through the mass-center of each plate.
The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914
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