LAW OF GRAVITATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does law of gravitation mean? 

• LAW OF GRAVITATION (noun)
  The noun LAW OF GRAVITATION has 1 sense:

1. (physics) the law that states any two bodies attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them

  Familiarity information: LAW OF GRAVITATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAW OF GRAVITATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(physics) the law that states any two bodies attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

law of gravitation; Newton's law of gravitation

Hypernyms ("law of gravitation" is a kind of...):

law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)

Meronyms (parts of "law of gravitation"):

constant of gravitation; G; gravitational constant; universal gravitational constant ((physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Holonyms ("law of gravitation" is a part of...):

gravitational theory; Newton's theory of gravitation; theory of gravitation; theory of gravity ((physics) the theory that any two particles of matter attract one another with a force directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them)

 Context examples 

They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars; whereof the innermost is distant from the centre of the primary planet exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost, five; the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half; so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distance from the centre of Mars; which evidently shows them to be governed by the same law of gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)