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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 force In A Sentence
- The discovery of the repulsive, anti - gravitational force of dark energy is explained.
- The sad thing about it is that small nongravitational forces and astrometric errors make an accurate collision prediction very hard to do more than a few years out. Asteroid Threat Conference Underway - NASA Watch
- But those masses also exert gravitational force upon each other. The Origin of the Universe
- This elementary particle allegedly communicates gravitational forces throughout the universe.
- Moreover, positive phototaxis is facilitated by gravitational forces. BioMed Central - Latest articles
- I was afraid I might crush her itty-bitty body just by standing near her, through sheer gravitational force alone.
- The relative weakness of gravitational forces also permits a mode of growth that large animals could not maintain. The Constraints of Corporate Tradition
- Gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between two objects.
- These waves are literally gravitons - the hypothetical particles that carry the gravitational force - that have been stretched to macroscopic lengths by the cosmic expansion.
- Earth's gravitational force holds the atmosphere around the earth.
