Noun:

केंद्र की ओर खींचवेवला, आकर्षण-शक्ति,

gravitation's Usage Examples:

The actual force between the particles arises in part from their mutual gravitation, which is inversely as the square of the distance.

He quotes as an instance that Newton in this way added to the planetary appearances contained in Kepler's laws the gravitation of the planets to the sun, as a notion of causality not contained in the appearances, and thus discovered that gravitation is the cause of the appearances.

The meteors, whatever their dimensions, must have motions around the sun in obedience to the law of gravitation in the same manner as planets and comets - that is, in conic sections of which the sun is always at one focus.

We might conceive the rapid motions of the heavenly bodies to result in some change either in the direction or amount of their gravitation towards each other at each moment; but such is not the case, even in the most rapidly moving bodies of the solar system.

A good deal of this is transported by gravitation from Baku to Batum on the Black Sea by means of a pipe laid overland.

The Karawanken railway, a direct connexion with Bohemia and the northern industrial provinces of Austria, is calculated to counteract the gravitation of traffic towards the German ports; while the Tauern railway constitutes the shortest route to the interior of Austria and to the south of Germany.

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On the other hand the enigmatical motion of the perihelion of Mercury has not yet found any plausible explanation except on the hypothesis that the gravitation of the sun diminishes at a rate slightly greater than that of the inverse square - the most simple modification being to suppose that instead of the exponent of the distance being exactly - 2, it is - 2.000 000 161 2.

The question whether this cause modifies gravitation admits of an easy test from observation.

The question has also been raised whether the action of gravitation is absolutely instantaneous.

Synonyms:

gravitational force, attraction, gravity, gravitational attraction, solar gravity, attractive force,

Antonyms:

advance, go, descend, precede, repulsion,