noun
(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
• Topics: ↑physics, ↑natural philosophy
• Hypernyms: ↑scientific theory
• Part Meronyms: ↑law of gravitation, ↑Newton's law of gravitation
Useful english dictionary. 2012.