gravitational theory

1. 1.

   (physics) the theory that any two particles of matter attract one another with a force directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them

   Synonymstheory of gravitationtheory of gravityNewton's theory of gravitation

   Broaderscientific theory

   Partslaw of gravitation

   physics

Questions about gravitational theory

What does gravitational theory mean?

gravitational theory means "(physics) the theory that any two particles of matter attract one another with a force directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them".

What is another word for gravitational theory?

Close synonyms include theory of gravitation, theory of gravity, Newton's theory of gravitation. 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 theory a common word?

gravitational theory 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.