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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
How To Use gravitational attraction In A Sentence
- Stars are initially formed from gas, mostly hydrogen, and contract under their own gravitational attraction.
- Stars are initially formed from gas, mostly hydrogen, and contract under their own gravitational attraction.
- Their gravitational attraction would thus curve up the universe to infinitely small size.
- Gravitational attraction is an equivalent expression of the force close to each other between and on the line of the two objects, coming from exchange of momentum between objects and micro-particles.
- Even Newtonian physics was unable to give a complete explanation of its orbit: the direction of the axis was found to move by rather more than could be explained by precession and the gravitational attraction of the other planets.
- If you treble the distance, the gravitational attraction gets nine times weaker.
- Black holes are objects for which the gravitational attraction is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from it.
- Both Earth and Moon have gravitational fields that allow bodies that would have missed them without their gravitational attraction to hit them.
- But the metaphor conveys the inevitability, the inexorability, of gravitational attraction that many of us have best experienced in love.
- This hypothesis holds that giant tongues of material were torn from the preexisting Sun by the gravitational attraction ofa passing star.
