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Definition: The center of gravity or center of mass of an object.
Author: PEB
Clark Kimberling's pictorial example and physical method of finding the centroid of an plane object. A more analytical description and information about the word's origin.
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Entry modified 10 January 2005.
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Cite this as:
Paul E. Black, "centroid", in
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 10 January 2005. (accessed TODAY)
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