gravitational force

1. 1.

   (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface

   “the more remote the body the less the gravity”

   “the gravitation between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them”

   “gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love”

   Synonymsgravitygravitationgravitational attraction

   Broaderattraction

   Narrowersolar gravity

   physics

Questions about gravitational force

What does gravitational force mean?

gravitational force means "(physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface".

What is another word for gravitational force?

Close synonyms include gravity, gravitation, gravitational attraction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gravitational force a common word?

gravitational force is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.