law of gravitation
(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: Newton's 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
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