noun
(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
• Syn: ↑law of gravitation
• Topics: ↑physics, ↑natural philosophy
• Hypernyms: ↑law, ↑law of nature
• Part Holonyms: ↑theory of gravitation, ↑theory of gravity, ↑gravitational theory, ↑Newton's theory of gravitation
• Part Meronyms: ↑gravitational constant, ↑universal gravitational constant, ↑constant of gravitation, ↑G
Useful english dictionary. 2012.