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gravitation

UK/ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪ̯ʃən/US/ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪ̯ʃən/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,056 of 15,258leans written

Gravitation is the attraction that every mass exerts on every other. The law of gravitation.

Newton's insight was that the apple and the moon obey the same rule. Gravitation is by far the weakest of the forces and the only one you can feel all day.

NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) · Public domain

Definitions of gravitation

  1. 1noungravitationThe universal attraction that every mass exerts on every other, as set out in Newton's law.C1

    “Gravitation explains the tides and the orbit of every planet.”

gravitation is a force.

Where it comes from

  1. New Latin

    gravitātiō

  2. English, today

    gravitation

Borrowed from New Latin gravitātiō. by surface analysis, gravitate + -ion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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gravitation in the wild

  • The first test of Newton's law of gravitation between masses in the laboratory was the Cavendish experiment conducted by the British scientist Henry Cavendish in 1798.

    Newton's law of universal gravitation

  • Le Sage's theory of gravitation is a kinetic theory of gravity originally proposed by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1690 and later by Georges-Louis Le Sage in 1748.

    Le Sage's theory of gravitation

  • Scalar theories of gravitation are field theories of gravitation in which the gravitational field is described using a scalar field, which is required to satisfy some field equation.

    Scalar theories of gravitation

  • In physics, Gauss's law for gravity, also known as Gauss's flux theorem for gravity, is a law of physics that is equivalent to Newton's law of universal gravitation.

    Gauss's law for gravity

  • The journal's field of interest is modern gravitational physics, encompassing all theoretical and experimental aspects of general relativity and gravitation.

    General Relativity and Gravitation

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the gravitātiō family

gravitational

gravitation — used about once every 159,543 pages · #15,056 · point at the bar for the others

  • gravitate