"gravitation" Definition

Definitions for the word "gravitation" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
The act of gravitating.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Physics 1 force of attraction between any particle of matter in the universe and any other. 2 effect of this, esp. The falling of bodies to the earth. gravitational adj.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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