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LAW OF GRAVITATION

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 I. (noun) 

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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 themplay

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)

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