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"the gravitation between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them" "gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love"noun(physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surfacetype of:
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"the gravitation of the middle class to the suburbs"nouna figurative movement toward some attraction
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"irrigation by gravitation rather than by pumps"nounmovement downward resulting from gravitational attractionOpposite:type of:
Definition that contains gravitation
- g (physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation
- mass the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
- capture a process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field
- tide the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
- gal a unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo)
- newton English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)
- wimp a hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation; postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe
- gravitational of or relating to or caused by gravitation
- binary a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation
- infusion (medicine) the passive introduction of a substance (a fluid or drug or electrolyte) into a vein or between tissues (as by gravitational force)