Cen'tro-bā'rie, a.

a. [From Gr. (τά) κεντροβαρικά, a treatise of Archimedes on finding the center of gravity; from κεντροβαρής, gravitating toward the center, compounded of κέντρον, center, and βάρος, weight.] Relating to the center of gravity, or to the process of finding it.

Centrobariæ method (Math.), a process invented for the purpose of measuring the area or the volume generated by the rotation of a line or surface about a fixed axis, depending upon the principle that every figure formed by the revolution of a line or surface about such an axis has for measure the product of the line or surface by the length of the path of its center of gravity;—sometimes called the theorem of Pappus, also, but incorrectly, Guldin's properties.