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  1. centre of percussion

    The center of percussion is the point on an extended massive object attached to a pivot where a perpendicular impact will produce no reactive shock at the pivot. Translational and rotational motions cancel at the pivot when an impulsive blow is struck at the center of percussion. The center of percussion is often discussed in the context of a bat, racquet, door, sword or other extended object held at one end. The same point is called the center of oscillation for the object suspended from the pivot as a pendulum, meaning that a simple pendulum with all its mass concentrated at that point will have the same period of oscillation as the compound pendulum. In sports, the center of percussion of a bat, racquet, or club is related to the so-called "sweet spot", but the latter is also related to vibrational bending of the object.

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

  1. Centre of Percussion

    The point in a suspended body, one free to swing like a pendulum, at which an impulse may be applied, perpendicular to the plane through the axis of the body and through the axis of support without shock to the axis. It is identical with the centre of oscillation, q. v., when such lies within the body.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. centre of percussion

    That point wherein the shock of the percutient bodies is the greatest.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of centre of percussion in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of centre of percussion in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9


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