painopiste — meaning in English

English meaning

• accent noun A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, typical of a region, country, or social group.
• centroid noun The point where all of a body's weight, or another force spread evenly through it, can be thought of as acting; the center of gravity or mass.
• emphasis noun Special importance or weight placed on something.

Senses

painopiste is used for these senses in English:

• accent (figuratively) Emphasis or importance in general.
• barycenter (physics) The center of a mass; often specifically, the point at which the gravitational forces exerted by two objects are equal
• barycenter (geometry) The centroid, the geometric center of a plane figure
• barycentric Of or pertaining to a centre of gravity.
• centroid (statistics, cluster analysis, of a cluster of points) the arithmetic mean (alternatively, median) position of a cluster of points in a coordinate system based on some application-dependent measure of distance.
• emphasis Special attention or prominence given to something.

accent — full definition

1. noun A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, typical of a region, country, or social group.
2. noun A mark placed over a letter to show pronunciation or stress.
3. noun A detail that stands out and adds emphasis or contrast, especially in design.
4. verb To emphasize or draw attention to something.

centroid — full definition

1. noun The point where all of a body's weight, or another force spread evenly through it, can be thought of as acting; the center of gravity or mass.
2. noun In a triangle, the single point where the three lines joining each corner to the midpoint of the opposite side meet; its coordinates are the average of the three corners' coordinates.
3. noun The average position of a group of points, found by averaging their coordinates.
4. noun A center of gravity worked out for something using a chosen function in place of density, over the area or space that function covers.

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