gravity
IPA: grˈævʌti
noun
- The state or condition of having weight; weight; heaviness.
- The state or condition of being grave; seriousness.
- (music) The lowness of a note.
- (physics) The force at the Earth's surface, of the attraction by the Earth's masses, and the centrifugal pseudo-force caused by the Earth's rotation, resulting from gravitation.
- (loosely, see usage notes) Gravitation, the universal force exercised by two bodies onto each other.
- (physics) Specific gravity.
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Examples of "gravity" in Sentences
- Gravity is the source of the motive force.
- The centripetal force is the gravity force.
- It is the gravity force that is the centripetal force.
- The gravity term is the inward acting centripetal force.
- The magnetic force, and the force of gravity are negligible.
- In the inertial frame, the only force is the centripetal gravity.
- The force of gravity is directed towards the center of the Earth.
- The key falling and the apple falling both bolster the fact of gravity.
- The vertical pole is unstable in the face of gravity and will soon fall.
- The use of physics extends into the combat, in the form of the gravity gun.
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