GRAVITATION
\ɡɹˌavɪtˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɡɹˌavɪtˈeɪʃən], \ɡ_ɹ_ˌa_v_ɪ_t_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of GRAVITATION
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- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
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- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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(physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface; "the more remote the body the less the gravity"; "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"--Albert Einstein
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a figurative movement toward some attraction; "the gravitation of the middle class to the suburbs"
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Acceleration produced by the mutual attraction of two masses, and of magnitude inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the two centers of mass. It is also the force imparted by the earth, moon, or a planet to an object near its surface. (From NASA Thesaurus, 1988)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The act of gravitating or tending to a centre of attraction: the force by which bodies are pressed or drawn, or by which they tend toward the centre of the earth or other centre, or the effect of that force. The attraction of gravitation exists between bodies in the mass, and acts at sensible distances. It is thus distinguished from chemical and cohesive attractions, which unite the particles of bodies together, and act at insensible distances, or distances too small to be measured.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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n. Act of tending toward the centre;—the law or force by which bodies are drawn together or by which they tend toward the centre—classified as terrestrial gravitation, or the tendency of earthly bodies to each other and to the centre of the earth; and universal gravitation, or the tendency of satellites to planets, planets to each other, and to the sun as their centre, &c. It operates directly as the sum of the two attracting bodies, and inversely as the square of their distance.
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