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centre
(redirected from center of mass)

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be/take centre stage (British, American)
to be the most important thing or person at an event or in a situation, or to be the thing or person that people notice most. A new range of electric cars will be centre stage at next month's exhibition.
See also: stage, take

left, right and centre (British, informal, American, informal, American, informal)

if something bad is happening left, right and centre, it is happening in a lot of places or to a lot of people. They were firing at people left, right and centre. The Postal Service has been losing customers left and right these past couple of years.
See also: right


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In a research report published in Physical Therapy in 1993, Oatis (1) calculated stiffness and damping coefficients of the knee joint, based on the moment of inertia of the leg and foot with respect to the center of mass of the leg-foot segment.
Correction by Physical Therapy
Because a star and its planet orbit a common center of mass, astrometry works best when the parent star has a relatively low mass and the planet isn't too close to the star.
Hubble weighs in: pinning down an extrasolar planet's mass by Cowen, R. / Science News
So even if a rider leans hard on a turn, her low center of mass coupled with gravity's downward force helps restore her to an upright position, much like a weighted punching bag rebounds after it's knocked over.
Bike or scooter? (Freeze Frame) by Science World
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