Gravitation
Gravitation , noun
[Compare French gravitation. See Gravity.]
1.
The act of gravitating.
2.
(Pysics) That species of attraction or force by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend toward each other; called also attraction of gravitation, universal gravitation, and universal gravity. See Attraction, and Weight.
Collocations (1)
Law of gravitation , that law in accordance with which gravitation acts, namely, that every two bodies or portions of matter in the universe attract each other with a force proportional directly to the quantity of matter they contain, and inversely to the squares of their distances.