Gravitation /(?)/
Grav·i·ta·tion
Gravitation
n.
- The act of gravitating.
- That species of attraction or force by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend toward each other; called also attraction of gravitation, universal gravitation, and universal gravity. See Attraction, and Weight. (Pysics)
Phrases & Compounds
- Law of gravitation
- that law in accordance with which gravitation acts, namely, that every two bodies or portions of matter in the universe attract each other with a force proportional directly to the quantity of matter they contain, and inversely to the squares of their distances.