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painopiste — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • accent noun A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, typical of a region, country, or social group.
  • centroid noun The point at which gravitational force (or other universally and uniformly acting force) may be supposed to act on a given rigid, uniformly dense body; the centre of gravity or centre of 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 at which gravitational force (or other universally and uniformly acting force) may be supposed to act on a given rigid, uniformly dense body; the centre of gravity or centre of mass.
  2. noun The point of intersection of the three medians of a given triangle; the point whose (Cartesian) coordinates are the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of the three vertices.
  3. noun the point whose (Cartesian) coordinates are the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of a given finite set of points.
  4. noun An analogue of the centre of gravity of a nonuniform body in which local density is replaced by a specified function (which can take negative values) and the place of the body's shape is taken by the function's domain.

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