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LAW OF GRAVITATION
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I. (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
Synonyms:
law of gravitation; Newton's law of gravitation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
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)
