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US
/ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃən/
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[ UK /ɡɹˌævɪtˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˌævɪtˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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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
gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love
the gravitation between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them -
movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction
irrigation by gravitation rather than by pumps -
a figurative movement toward some attraction
the gravitation of the middle class to the suburbs
How To Use gravitation In A Sentence
- The geoid is defined as a gravitational equipotential surface that coincides with mean sea level.
- When he looks at you like that, you feel like you're standing at the verge of a bottomless abyss, a void so deep that it has its own mystical gravitation.
- By coming so close to earth, the gravitational field will alter its trajectory ever so slightly.
- A cloud of gas that is gravitationally attracted to the black hole can have a net angular momentum oppositely directed from that of the black hole. Supermassive Black Holes Spinning Backwards Create Death Ray Jets? | Universe Today
- Stars are initially formed from gas, mostly hydrogen, and contract under their own gravitational attraction.
- That unexpectedly collapses it into a black hole, a supermassive region with a gravitational pull so strong not even light can escape.
- To escape from the Moon's gravitational field, a sample must be accelerated to a velocity above 2.4 kilometres per second.
- This is consistent with the proposal that the cerebellar cortex contains an internal representation of gravitational torques which is encoded through a learning process. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- It does not therefore describe the collision of genuinely non-aligned gravitational waves.
- Thus it was that the impenetrability, the mobility, the impulsive force of bodies, and the laws of motion and of gravitation, were discovered.
