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It's an older term; nowadays the phrase "Center of mass" seems to be preferred. It's, basically, the mass-weighted center of a ... well, a thing. The center of a sphere of uniform density is easy to calculate; it's the geometric center of the sphere. For other shapes or for objects where the density is not the same throughout, it's more complicated.

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