law of gravitation

What does law of gravitation mean?

law of gravitation means "(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".

What is another word for law of gravitation?

Close synonyms include Newton's law 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 law of gravitation a common word?

law of gravitation 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for law of gravitation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.