Centre of mass
noun
the point at which the mass of a system could be concentrated without affecting the behaviour of the system under the action of external linear forces
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of or relating to a marketing device, as a coupon, that entitles a buyer to a specified amount off the regular price.
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one hundred. belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family of languages that show distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that show a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds (k) or [kh] /x/ (Show IPA) from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes. The centum branches are Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Anatolian, and […]
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- Centuple
a hundred times as great; hundredfold. to increase 100 times. Historical Examples