Gravitation Synonyms and Antonyms

grăvĭ-tāshən
Movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. gravity
  2. mutual attraction
  3. agitation
  4. settling together
  5. planetary motion
  6. earthward motion
  7. resistless tendency
  8. gravitational attraction
  9. gravitational-force
Antonyms:
  1. levitation

Words Related to Gravitation

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Gravitation Sentence Examples

  • The question whether this cause modifies gravitation admits of an easy test from observation.

  • The question has also been raised whether the action of gravitation is absolutely instantaneous.

  • On the other hand the enigmatical motion of the perihelion of Mercury has not yet found any plausible explanation except on the hypothesis that the gravitation of the sun diminishes at a rate slightly greater than that of the inverse square - the most simple modification being to suppose that instead of the exponent of the distance being exactly - 2, it is - 2.000 000 161 2.

  • We might conceive the rapid motions of the heavenly bodies to result in some change either in the direction or amount of their gravitation towards each other at each moment; but such is not the case, even in the most rapidly moving bodies of the solar system.

  • The actual force between the particles arises in part from their mutual gravitation, which is inversely as the square of the distance.

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