English noun: law of gravitation | |||
1. | law of gravitation (cognition) (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 | ||
Synonyms | Newton's law of gravitation | ||
Broader (hypernym) | law, law of nature | ||
Part holonym | constant of gravitation, G, gravitational constant, universal gravitational constant | ||
Part meronym | gravitational theory, Newton's theory of gravitation, theory of gravitation, theory of gravity | ||
Domain category | natural philosophy, physics | ||