центр тя́жести — meaning in English
tsentr tyazhesti
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English meaning
- 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.
Senses
центр тя́жести is used for these senses in English:
- barycenter (physics) The center of a mass; often specifically, the point at which the gravitational forces exerted by two objects are equal
- center of gravity (physics) A point, near or within a body, through which its weight can be assumed to act when considering forces on the body and its motion under gravity. This coincides with the center of mass in a uniform gravitational field.
- 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.
centroid — full definition
- 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.
- 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.
- noun the point whose (Cartesian) coordinates are the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of a given finite set of points.
- 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.