theory of gravitation

What does theory of gravitation mean?

theory of gravitation 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 theory of gravitation?

Close synonyms include theory of gravity, gravitational theory, 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 theory of gravitation a common word?

theory 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 theory of gravitation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.