Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mathematics, a locus of the instantaneous center of no velocity, for motion in two dimensions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Kinematics) In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The path traced by the
instantaneous rotational centre of aplane figure when it undergoesmotion in a plane
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Note how the major extrusion lobe lobe-sided it off the plane of longitudinal axis into a boomerang, the bigger end picking up as keep a coat as the minor lobe as the process of waxing outward from the centrode finally arrested.
Small Asteroids, Bread Flour, and a Dutch Physicist's 150-year Old Theory | Universe Today 2010
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