Orthocenter vs Barycenter - What's the difference?
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(geometry): the intersection of the three lines that can be drawn flowing from the three corners of a triangle to a point along the opposite side where each line intersects that side at a 90 degree angle; in an acute triangle, it is inside the triangle; in an obtuse triangle, it is outside the triangle.
(physics) The center of a mass; often specifically, the point at which the gravitational forces exerted by two objects are equal
(geometry) The centroid, the geometric center of a plane figure
In geometry terms the difference between orthocenter and barycenter
is that orthocenter is : the intersection of the three lines that can be drawn flowing from the three corners of a triangle to a point along the opposite side where each line intersects that side at a 90 degree angle; in an acute triangle, it is inside the triangle; in an obtuse triangle, it is outside the triangle while barycenter is the centroid, the geometric center of a plane figure.orthocenter
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* (UK) orthocentreNoun
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*barycenter
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* (UK) barycentreNoun
(en noun)- the Earth–Moon barycenter