centroid

[sen-troid]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Mechanics.��the point that may be considered as the center of a one- or two-dimensional figure, the sum of the displacements of all points in the figure from such a point being zero.
Also called median point.��Geometry.��that point where the medians of a triangle intersect.

centroid

/ ˈ��ɛ�Գٰ�ɔɪ�� /

noun

1. the centre of mass of an object of uniform density, esp of a geometric figure
2. (of a finite set) the point whose coordinates are the mean values of the coordinates of the points of the set

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Other Word Forms

centroidal adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of centroid¹

First recorded in 1875–80; centr- + -oid

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Genes and centroids used for Lund subtype label assignment.

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Green asterisks indicate the centroid position of each cell on day 1.

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They looked for a particular signature known as a moving centroid: an off-center point of light that could be created only by an eclipsing binary, not by a planet.

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When this binary blinks out as one star crosses the other, the center of the light in the field of view should shift over to the side, creating a signature called a moving centroid.

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For the pre-processing required by PICNIC’s hidden Markov model, we used a Bayesian model to estimate cluster centroids for each SNP.

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centroclinal centrolecithal

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