barycentre
Letters
10 characters
Language
French
word origin
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barycentre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Point d’intersection des trois médianes d’un triangle. Pronounced \ba.ʁi.sɑ̃tʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barycentre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʁi.sɑ̃tʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for barycentre is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.ʁi.sɑ̃tʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for barycentre in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is barycentre, spelled B-A-R-Y-C-E-N-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Point d’intersection des trois médianes d’un triangle.
- 2Centre de gravité.
- 3Notion de moyenne (ou espérance).
- 4Notion de centre d’inertie (ou de centre de masse ou de centre de gravité).
- 5Notion de moment (moment d’inertie, moment cinétique).
- 6Centre de masse d’une molécule, utilisé pour décrire ses mouvements globaux sans tenir compte des mouvements internes des atomes ou des électrons.
- 7Noyau, milieu, partie centrale.
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