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The center of mass of two or more bodies, about which their orbital motions can be described.
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- system barycenter
- orbit a barycenter
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Both stars moved around their common barycenter.
The system’s barycenter lay beyond the larger star’s visible surface.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular barycenter; plural barycenters. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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