Central body

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules
Synonym: centrosome

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In astrodynamics a central body ( $m_1\,$ ) is a body that is being orbited by an orbiting body ( $m_2\,$ ). Under standard assumptions in astrodynamics:

it is more massive than the orbiting body by several orders of magnitude (i.e. $m_1<<m_2\,$ ),
it is a center of an inertial frame of reference for the orbiting body,
it is in the focus (or one of the two) of the orbiting bodies' orbit.

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