Usually means: Point where mass is balanced.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. center of gravity: Merriam-Webster
  2. center of gravity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. center of gravity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. center of gravity: Vocabulary.com
  5. center of gravity: Wordnik
  6. center-of-gravity, center of gravity: Wiktionary
  7. center of gravity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. center of gravity: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. center of gravity: Dictionary.com
  10. Center of gravity (disambiguation), Center of gravity (military), Center of gravity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. center of gravity: Rhymezone
  12. center of gravity: FreeDictionary.org
  13. center of gravity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. center of gravity: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. center of gravity: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. center of gravity: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. center of gravity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. center of gravity: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. center of gravity: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Center of Gravity: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Center of Gravity: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. center of gravity, center of gravity: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Center of gravity: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
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  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (center of gravity)

noun:  (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.
noun:  (figurative) The most central or important part of something, which its other parts are considered in relation to.

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